Toward software metrics for distributed software

Author

Tsaur, Woei-Jiunn ; Horng, Shi-Jinn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1995

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

216

Abstract

With increasingly complicated distributed software we must do our best to establish a maintenance mechanism. The paper presents generalized software complexity metrics for measuring the computational complexity of distributed programs, and introduces the notion of communication complexity unit based on the smallest process communication group. We affirm that the smallest process communication group is a unifying mechanism for event and process abstraction whatever distributed programming languages are used and advocate it as a basically generalized communication complexity unit

Keywords

communication complexity; distributed processing; software maintenance; software metrics; communication complexity unit; computational complexity measurement; distributed programming languages; distributed programs; distributed software; event abstraction; generalized software complexity metrics; maintenance; process abstraction; smallest process communication group; software metrics; Complexity theory; Computer languages; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software systems; System software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7171-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1995.496969

Filename

496969