Software metrics for small database applications
Sana Abiad, Ramzi A. Haraty, Nashat Mansour · 2000
Known software metrics for estimating complexity and effort are usually based on lines of code or the program's flowgraph.Such metrics are suitable for large-scale procedural or object-oriented software applications.In this work, we propose a new complexity metric, called DataBase Points (DBP), that is suitable for small-scale relational database business applications developed in the MS-ACCESS (ACCESS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation) or similar environments.DBP is constructed from components that are derived from typical ACCESS design.Further, DBP is used to estimate the effort needed to develop such software.The results of applying this new metric to a number of applications show that it is promising and that it captures the complexity features of small database applications.