Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2016

Abstract

Code metric analysis is a well-known approach for assessing the quality of a software system. However, current tools and techniques do not take the system architecture (e.g., MVC, Android) into account. This means that all classes are assessed similarly, regardless of their specific responsibilities. In this paper, we propose SATT (Software Architecture Tailored Thresholds), an approach that detects whether an architectural role is considerably different from others in the system in terms of code metrics, and provides a specific threshold for that role. We evaluated our approach on 2 different architectures (MVC and Android) in more than 400 projects. We also interviewed 6 experts in order to explain why some architectural roles are different from others. Our results shows that SATT can overcome issues that traditional approaches have, especially when some architectural role presents very different metric values than others.

Keywords

Code metric analysis, Software quality, System architecture, Software Architecture Tailored Thresholds (SATT)

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 16th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Raleigh, USA, 2016 October 2-3

First Page

41

Last Page

50

ISBN

9781509038503

Identifier

10.1109/SCAM.2016.19

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

City or Country

Raleigh, United States

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM.2016.19

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