Evaluation of object-oriented spatial complexity measures

  • Authors:
  • Jitender Kumar Chhabra;Varun Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India;National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Spatial complexity measures help in the estimation of the effort re-quired in the process of program comprehension. These spatial com-plexity measures have been proposed for procedure-oriented software as well as object-oriented software. In this paper, an at-tempt has been made to evaluate object-oriented spatial complexity measures using formal evaluation frameworks proposed by Weyu-ker and Briand et al. A practical and useful complexity measure must satisfy most of the properties given in these frameworks. The results of this study show that object-oriented spatial metrics satisfy all properties and parameters required by these two evaluation frameworks and thus these spatial measures are robust and useful.