Empirical Validation of OO Metrics Impact on Changeability

  • D. Ciubăncan Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • P. Țirban Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

In the context of current software development, where changes to an application are made from one sprint to another, it’s more and more necessary for developers to be able to easily change the existing code. Starting from the existing literature and using two commercial projects with multiple versions and different architecture we are trying to confirm a correlation between a possible changeability indicator and variations of OO metrics. In our research we managed to provide empirical evidence of the relation between certain OO metrics that can be computed for a system and the changeability quality attribute.

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Published
2020-04-22
How to Cite
CIUBĂNCAN, D.; ȚIRBAN, P.. Empirical Validation of OO Metrics Impact on Changeability. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica, [S.l.], v. 65, n. 1, p. 5-16, apr. 2020. ISSN 2065-9601. Available at: <https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/article/view/47>. Date accessed: 28 mar. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbi.2020.1.01.
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