A suite of Java specific metrics for software quality assessment based on statical code analyzers

Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila, Dana Juratoni, Dacian Tudor, Vladimir Cretu

University Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania,
Faculty of Automation and Computer Science
E-mail: chirila(at)cs.upt.ro, vcretu(at)cs.upt.ro

Abstract

In the context of software engineering, quality assessment is not straightforward. Generally, quality assessment is important since it can cut costs in the product life-cycle. A software quality assessment model based on open-source analyzers and quality factors facilitates quality measurement. Our quality assessment model is based on three principles: mapping rules to quality factors, computing scores based on the percentage of rule violating entities (classes, methods, instructions), assessing quality as a weighted mean of the rule attached scores.

Keywords

software metrics; quality assessment model; static code analyzers

BibTex

@Article{Chirila2011SACI1,
	author			=		{Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila and Dana Juratoni and Dacian Tudor and Vladimir Cre\c{t}u},
	title			=		{Towards a software quality assessment model based on open-source statical code analyzers},
	booktitle		=		{2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics SACI},
	pages			=		{341--346},
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	organization	=		{Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Timi\c{s}oara, Timi\c{s}oara, Romania},
	%publisher		=		{},
	address			=		{Timi\c{s}oara, Romania},
	month			=		{May},
	year			=		{2011},
}

Text

[Chirila2011SACI1] - Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila, Dana Juratoni, Dacian Tudor, Vladimir Cretu. Towards a software quality assessment model based on open-source statical code analyzers, 2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), pp. 341--346, ISBN 978-1-4244-9107-0/11, Timisoara, Romania, May, 2011

Data fields

[Chirila2011SACI1] -
Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila, Dana Juratoni, Dacian Tudor, Vladimir Cretu.
Towards a software quality assessment model based on open-source statical code analyzers,
2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI),
pp. 341--346,
ISBN 978-1-4244-9107-0/11,
Timisoara, Romania,
May,
2011