Assessment of System Evolution Through Characterization
Fabrizio Fioravanti, Paolo Nesi, S. Perlini · 1998
Due to the growing diffusion of the object-oriented paradigm and the need of maintaining the process of software development under control, industries are looking for metrics/indicators capable of evaluating the system evolution for controlling quality, reusability, maintainability, etc. In this paper, some new metrics are proposed for monitoring system development and maintenance. These metrics are used with a set of histograms to give a clear characterization of the system under development. Histograms can be profitably used for detecting critical conditions during the system life-cycle. The semantics of these histograms has been validated against several projects; an example is also reported.