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Formal Description of Object-Oriented Software Measurement and Metrics in SEMS

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OOIS 2001

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The philosophy toward metrology is based on a fundamental assumption that one cannot control an object or a system if one cannot measure it. This paper presents a set of formally described measures for object-oriented software in the context of an innovated software engineering measurement system (SEMS). SEMS models over 304 meta-and derived-measures for software products and software engineering processes measurement. The measures for object-oriented architectures, sizes, and complexity in SEMS represent the nature and fundamental attributes of object-oriented software. This work also shows that a software measurement system can be described by an algebraic system, therefore new measures may be derived based on a core set of meta measures.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Yingxu Wang

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada

    Xingxu Wang  & Ronald Johnston  & 

  2. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, UK

    Shushma Patel

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Wang, Y. (2001). Formal Description of Object-Oriented Software Measurement and Metrics in SEMS. In: Wang, X., Johnston, R., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS 2001. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0719-4_14

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