Neural Network-Based Model for the Quality Assessment of Object-Oriented Software

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International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.4018/ijossp.313182

Sumit Babu, Raghuraj Singh

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Abstract

Software quality assessment is an important subject among the researchers in the software development domain. The quality assessment is generally done either at the design level through some of the design attributes or through code when the product is ready. These two types of software quality are referred to as design quality and product quality, respectively. Several techniques and tools are available that facilitate to assess the design as well as the product quality of software. In this paper, a neural network model is proposed for the assessment of quality of object-oriented software at the product level. The authors select a subset of existing object-oriented metrics that are normalized at three levels and used to find quality factors like understandability, reusability, flexibility, maintainability, reliability, extensibility, and modifiability for the model development. The model is validated by assessing quality levels of 33 open source object-oriented software of different design complexities and observing a high correlation between these quality levels in comparison with an existing model.

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基于神经网络的面向对象软件质量评价模型

软件质量评估是软件开发领域研究的一个重要课题。质量评估通常在设计级别通过一些设计属性完成，或者在产品准备就绪时通过代码完成。这两种类型的软件质量分别称为设计质量和产品质量。有几种技术和工具可以帮助评估软件的设计和产品质量。本文提出了一种面向对象软件产品级质量评价的神经网络模型。作者选择了现有的面向对象度量标准的一个子集，这些度量标准在三个级别上进行规范化，并用于发现模型开发的质量因素，如可理解性、可重用性、灵活性、可维护性、可靠性、可扩展性和可修改性。通过评估33种不同设计复杂性的开源面向对象软件的质量水平，并观察与现有模型相比这些质量水平之间的高度相关性，验证了该模型。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. This wide area entails many intriguing question and facets, including the special development process performed by a large number of geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and also economic and legal issues. Beyond this topic, open source software is an example of a highly distributed innovation process led by the users. Therefore, many aspects have relevance beyond the realm of software and its development. In this tradition, IJOSSP also publishes papers on these topics. IJOSSP is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research and applying a multitude of research approaches.