Design Stability Measures for Software Maintenance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on COMPSAC 1982 and 1983
Practice and principles of compiler building with C
Practice and principles of compiler building with C
Measuring the Ripple Effect of Pascal Programs
IWSM '00 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on New Approaches in Software Measurement
Measuring Ripple Effect on Software Maintenance
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Some Stability Measures for Software Maintenance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Module connection analysis: a tool for scheduling software debugging activities
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I
Measuring the Ripple Effect of Pascal Programs
IWSM '00 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on New Approaches in Software Measurement
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Recent acquisition of a half million LOC telephone switching system TXE4 [7] written in Pascal has provided a unique opportunity for software measurement. This paper discusses the software implementation of ripple effect measure - REST (Ripple Effect and Stability Tool) focusing on a recent attempt to produce a Pascal parser for REST which will be used to measure the TXE4 system. Ripple effect is a measure of impact analysis: the effect that a change to one part of a system will have on other parts of a system. It can be used in software engineering development to compare different versions of software or during maintenance to highlight software modules which may need attention. The implementation of the Pascal parser has highlighted several significant differences between Pascal and C source code, which are discussed and investigated.