Using Object Oriented Software Metrics for Mobile Application Development.
Gregor Jošt, Jernej Huber, Marjan Heričko · 2013
Developing and maintaining software for multiple platforms can be challenging. So, scheduling and budget planning, cost estimation, software debugging, software performance optimization etc. is required. In traditional software, this can be achieved using software metrics. The objective of our article was to examine whether the traditional software metrics are appropriate for measuring the mobile applications ’ source code. To achieve this goal, a small-scale application was developed across three different platforms (Android, iOS and Windows Phone). The code was then evaluated, using the traditional software metrics. After applying the metrics and analysing the code, we obtained comparable results, regardless of the platform. If we aggregate the results, we can argue that traditional software metrics can be used for mobile applications ’ source code as well. However, further analysis is required, in light of a more complex mobile application. Key Words and Phrases: Software product metrics, object-oriented metrics, mobile development, multi-platform mobile development 1.