Hi, concerning Software Quality Assurance Metrics, some notes on the GRASS GIS project on which such software metrics were applied in the past.
Here some selected papers which we published on the matter: * Di Penta, M, M. Neteler, G. Antoniol, E. Merlo, 2005: A Language-Independent Software Renovation Framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 77(3), pp. 225-240. http://staff.rcost.unisannio.it/mdipenta/papers/jss2005.pdf * Antoniol, G., M. Di Penta, and M. Neteler, 2003. Moving to smaller libraries via clustering and genetic algorithms. In CSMR 2003, 7th IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Proc. IEEE omputer Society, 307-316. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58.988&rep=rep1&type=pdf * Di Penta, M., M. Neteler, G. Antoniol and E. Merlo, 2002. Knowledge Based Library Refactoring for an Open Source Project. IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering WCRE, Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Proc. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 319-328. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.4.4165&rep=rep1&type=pdf Using an automated approach, we identified cloned code (which easily happens in a software project which started decades back in 1982), reducing the overall code while reaching better code quality. In addition, we refactored all source code from K&R C notation to ANSI C (given roughly 1 million lines of code, the SVN commit took a few hours back then :-). Cheers, Markus -- Markus Neteler http://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software http://grass.osgeo.org http://courses.neteler.org/blog _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
