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Title: Creating an automated tool for measuring software cohesion

Conference ·
OSTI ID:105716
 [1];  [2]
  1. California State Univ., Sacramento, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA (United States)

Program modules with high complexity tend to be more error prone and more difficult to understand. These factors increase maintenance and enhancement costs. Hence, a tool that can help programmers determine a key factor in module complexity should be very useful. Our goal is to create a software tool that will automatically give a quantitative measure of the cohesiveness of a given module, and hence give us an estimate of the {open_quotes}maintainability{close_quotes} of that module. The Tool will use a metric developed by Professors Linda M. Ott and James M. Bieman. The Ott/Bieman metric gives quantitative measures that indicate the degree of functional cohesion using abstract data slices.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
105716
Report Number(s):
UCRL-ID-114972-2; CONF-9405328-Absts.; ON: DE95014118; TRN: 95:006489-0012
Resource Relation:
Conference: Science and Engineering Research Semester (SERS) student symposium, Livermore, CA (United States), 6 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: 6 May 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of SERS intership: Spring 1994 abstracts and research papers; Goldman, B.; PB: 195 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English