Title :
A Metamodel for the Measurement of Object-Oriented Systems: An Analysis using Alloy
Author :
McQuillan, Jacqueline A. ; Power, James F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth
Abstract :
This paper presents a MOF-compliant metamodel for calculating software metrics and demonstrates how it is used to generate a metrics tool that calculates coupling and cohesion metrics. We also describe a systematic approach to the analysis of MOF-compliant metamodels and illustrate the approach using the presented metamodel. In this approach, we express the metamodel using UML and OCL and harness existing automated tools in a framework that generates a Java implementation and an Alloy specification of the metamodel, and use this both to examine the metamodel constraints, and to generate instantiations of the metamodel. Moreover, we describe how the approach can be used to generate test data for any software based on a MOF-compliant metamodel. We extend our framework to support this approach and use it to generate a test suite for the metrics calculation tool that is based on our metamodel.
Keywords :
Java; Unified Modeling Language; software metrics; Alloy specification; Java implementation; MOF-compliant metamodel; OCL; UML; meta object facility; object constrained language; object-oriented system; software metrics; unified modelling language; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer science; Java; Object oriented modeling; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software quality; Software testing; Unified modeling language; Alloy; metamodels; model testing; object-oriented metrics;
Conference_Titel :
Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, 2008 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lillehammer
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3127-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICST.2008.58