Information Theory-Based Measurement of Software Designs

9803853基于信息理论的软件设计度量是一个研究项目，它定义和验证了新一代的软件设计度量，基于信息理论，这反过来又将促进一个新的水平的成本效益提高软件质量。这个项目正在开发在高级设计过程中创建的软件抽象的内聚和耦合度量，以便在生命周期的早期发现质量问题。由于许多设计抽象都是用图来表示的，因此图属性的度量可能会得到广泛的应用。许多传统的软件度量标准计算功能，好像所有项目在设计过程中都同样重要。信息论是一种替代方法，它关注的是属性中的信息量，而不是计数。该项目通过对内聚性和耦合性度量的定义和实证验证，建立了新一代基于信息论的软件设计度量。 与一家大型电信设备制造商的合作为可信的案例研究提供了基础，其中所研究的系统是由一组专业人员在工业环境中开发的，并且足够大，可以与其他行业项目进行比较。

9803853 Information Theory-Based Measurement of Software Designs is a research project that is defining and validating a new generation of software design metrics, based on information theory, which in turn, will facilitate a new level of cost- effective improvement to software quality. This project is developing metrics of cohesion and coupling on abstractions of software that are created during high-level design, so that quality problems may be detected early in the life cycle. Since many design abstractions are represented by graphs, metrics of graph attributes will likely find broad application. Many traditional software metrics count features, as if all items were equally important in the design process. Information theory is an alternative approach that focuses on the amount of information in an attribute, rather than a count. This project is establishing a new generation of information theory-based software design metrics by definition and empirical validation of metrics for cohesion and coupling. Collaboration with a large telecommunications equipment manufacturer is providing the basis for credible case studies, where the system studied is being developed by a group of professionals in an industrial environment, and is large enough to be comparable to other industry projects.***