Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects

Software measurement can play a major role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The measurement activities require appropriate tools to collect relevant metric data. Currently, there are several such tools available for software measurement. The main objective of this paper...

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Main Authors:	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham, Boughton, Clive V.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	T60 Work measurement. Methods engineering
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/1/Validation_of_Measurement_Tools_to_Extract_Metrics_from_Open_Source_Projects.pdf

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spelling	iium-379532014-09-02T02:41:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/ Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Boughton, Clive V. T60 Work measurement. Methods engineering Software measurement can play a major role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The measurement activities require appropriate tools to collect relevant metric data. Currently, there are several such tools available for software measurement. The main objective of this paper is to discuss the validation of results when using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight four tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our findings show that the tools provide different results for similar metrics and we discuss the methods used to validate the results reported by the tools. Our research is currently based on the work of Card and Glass, who argue that design complexity measures (data complexity and structural complexity) are indicators/predictors of procedural/cyclomatic complexity (decision counts) and errors (discovered from system tests). 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/1/Validation_of_Measurement_Tools_to_Extract_Metrics_from_Open_Source_Projects.pdf Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham and Boughton, Clive V. (2012) Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects. In: 2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS), 21-24 Oct. 2012, Kuala Lumpur. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6417648&tag=1
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spellingShingle	T60 Work measurement. Methods engineering Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Boughton, Clive V. Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
description	Software measurement can play a major role in ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. The measurement activities require appropriate tools to collect relevant metric data. Currently, there are several such tools available for software measurement. The main objective of this paper is to discuss the validation of results when using a combination of multiple measurement tools especially for products built using object-oriented techniques and languages. In this paper, we highlight four tools for collecting metric data, in our case from several Java-based open source projects. Our findings show that the tools provide different results for similar metrics and we discuss the methods used to validate the results reported by the tools. Our research is currently based on the work of Card and Glass, who argue that design complexity measures (data complexity and structural complexity) are indicators/predictors of procedural/cyclomatic complexity (decision counts) and errors (discovered from system tests).
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Boughton, Clive V.
author_facet	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Boughton, Clive V.
author_sort	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
title	Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
title_short	Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
title_full	Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
title_fullStr	Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
title_full_unstemmed	Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
title_sort	validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects
publishDate	2012
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37953/1/Validation_of_Measurement_Tools_to_Extract_Metrics_from_Open_Source_Projects.pdf
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Validation of measurement tools to extract metrics from open source projects

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