Dependency profiles for software architecture evaluations

  • Authors:
  • Eric Bouwers;Arie van Deursen;Joost Visser

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the concept of a "dependency profile", a system level metric aimed at quantifying the level of encapsulation and independence within a system. We verify that these profiles are suitable to be used in an evaluation context by inspecting the dependency profiles for a repository of almost 100 systems. Furthermore we outline the steps we are taking to validate the usefulness and applicability of the proposed profiles.