EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF OO METRICS IMPACT ON CHANGEABILITY

Authors

  • Dana CIUBĂNCAN Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: cdis1553@scs.ubbcluj.ro
  • Paul ȚIRBAN Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: tirban@cs.ubbcluj.ro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbi.2020.1.01

Keywords:

Software Quality, Changeability, Object Oriented Metrics.

Abstract

In the context of current software development, where changes to an application are made from one sprint to another, it’s more and more necessary for developers to be able to easily change the existing code. Starting from the existing literature and using two commercial projects with multiple versions and different architecture we are trying to confirm a correlation between a possible changeability indicator and variations of OO metrics. In our research we managed to provide empirical evidence of the relation between certain OO metrics that can be computed for a system and the changeability quality attribute.

Author Biographies

Dana CIUBĂNCAN, Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: cdis1553@scs.ubbcluj.ro

Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Department of Computer Science, 1 M. Koga˘lniceanu Street, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: cdis1553@scs.ubbcluj.ro

Paul ȚIRBAN, Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: tirban@cs.ubbcluj.ro

Babe¸s-Bolyai University, Department of Computer Science, 1 M. Koga˘lniceanu Street, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email address: tirban@cs.ubbcluj.ro

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STUDIA UBB INFORMATICA, Volume 65 (LXV), No. 1, June 2020

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2020-06-30

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CIUBĂNCAN, D., & ȚIRBAN, P. (2020). EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF OO METRICS IMPACT ON CHANGEABILITY. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica, 65(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbi.2020.1.01

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