Empirical Research Similarity Metrics For Software Component Interfaces

Authors:
Benedikt Kratz;Ralf Reussner;Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
Affiliations:
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany;Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Venue:
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this article we define metrics for measuring component interface similarity. These metrics were applied in an empirical study investigating the relationship between the functionality and the interfaces of software components. The main contributions of this article are: (i) the introduction of software component interface refactorings, i.e., transformations working on IDL-style (i.e., signature-list based) component interfaces. These refactorings are used to define a similarity metric for signature-list based component interfaces, (ii) the definition of efficiently computable metrics measuring the similarity of software component protocols (i.e., valid call sequences to component services), and, (iii) the discussion of first insights from the metrics' application in the context of our empirical study.