A Software Code Measures Based on Requirement Engineering Documents
Zainab Mohammed Hussein, Dahlia Jasim Mohammed · 2013
Research shows that Metrics are used by the software industry to estimate the software before creating it to impact the quality of the decision making earlier at the requirement stage, quantify the development, operation, and maintenance of the software. In this paper a software code measures could be anticipated by the requirement measures gathered from the requirement engineering documents. Ten case studies have been analyzed, datadriven approach have been used to propose two mathematical models, one for requirement metrics which is the Requirement Model (RM) and another one for code metrics which is the Code Model (CM) based on the gathered and analyzed data from the tested systems. The results proved that the RM and CM values are approximately equal based on the relative error measurement and thus a method is gained for computing the code metrics in advanced phases of the software life-cycle and hence time and effort are saved, the cost is decreased, and low wastage is achieved.