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，它定义和验证了基于信息理论的新一代软件设计度量，这反过来又将促进软件质量的成本效益改进达到一个新的水平。该项目正在开发在高级设计期间创建的软件抽象的内聚和耦合的度量，以便可以在生命周期的早期检测质量问题。由于许多设计抽象都是用图形表示的，因此图形属性的度量可能会得到广泛的应用。许多传统的软件度量都计算功能，就好像所有的项目在设计过程中都是同等重要的。信息论是另一种方法，它关注属性中的信息量，而不是计数。该项目通过对内聚和耦合度量的定义和实证验证，建立了新一代基于信息理论的软件设计度量。与一家大型电信设备制造商的合作为可靠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，其规模足以与其他工业项目相媲美

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.***