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Cohesion metrics for predicting maintainability of service-orientated software

Perepletchikov, M, Ryan, C and Frampton, K 2007, 'Cohesion metrics for predicting maintainability of service-orientated software', in A. Mathur, E. Wong & M.F. Lau (ed.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software, Portland, Oregon, USA, 11-12 October 2007.

Document type: Conference Paper
Collection: Conference Papers

Title Cohesion metrics for predicting maintainability of service-orientated software
Author(s) Perepletchikov, M
Ryan, C
Frampton, K
Year 2007
Conference name international Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'07)
Conference location Portland, Oregon, USA
Conference dates 11-12 October 2007
Proceedings title Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
Editor(s) A. Mathur, E. Wong & M.F. Lau
Publisher IEEE
Place of publication CA, USA
Abstract Although Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising paradigm for developing enterprise software systems, existing research mostly assumes the existence of black box services with little attention given to the structural characteristics of the implementing software, potentially resulting in poor system maintainability. Whilst there has been some preliminary work examining coupling in a service- oriented context, there has to date been no such work on the structural property of cohesion. Consequently, this paper extends existing notions of cohesion in OO and procedural design in order to account for the unique characteristics of SOC, allowing the derivation of assumptions linking cohesion to the maintainability of service-oriented software. From these assumptions, a set of metrics are derived to quantify the degree of cohesion of service oriented design constructs. Such design level metrics are valuable because they allow the prediction of maintainability early in the SDLC.
Subjects Software Engineering
Copyright notice © 2007 IEEE
 
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