Measuring Levels of Abstraction in Software Development.
Frank F. Tsui, Abdolrashid Gharaat, Sheryl Duggins, Edward Jung · Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2011
In software engineering and development, we are expected to utilize the technique of abstraction. Yet, it is one of the most confounding topics. In this paper we explore the concept of abstraction as applied to software engineering, define and discuss a conceptual metric called levels-ofabstraction, LOA, and show some attributes of LOA. Keyword: software, abstraction, measurement