WapMetrics: A tool for computing UML design metrics forWeb applications

Author

Ghosheh, Emad ; Black, Sue

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Software Syst., Univ. of Westminster, London

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 May 2009

Firstpage

682

Lastpage

689

Abstract

Many companies are still asking how to assess and predict the maintenance cost of their software. Measures of software maintenance cost can be taken either late or early in the development process. Early measures of software maintenance cost are beneficial because they can help in allocating project resources efficiently, predicting the effort of maintenance tasks and controlling the maintenance process. This paper describes a tool for computing early metrics from UML class diagrams based on the Web Application Extension (WAE) for UML. A case study is used to show the usefulness and effectiveness of the tool.

Keywords

Internet; Unified Modeling Language; software cost estimation; software maintenance; software metrics; software tools; UML class diagram; UML design metric; Unified Modeling Language; WapMetric; Web application extension; software maintenance cost measure; Application software; Costs; Object oriented modeling; Resource management; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software systems; Unified modeling language; User interfaces; Web pages; UML; Web applications; maintainability; metrics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2009. AICCSA 2009. IEEE/ACS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3806-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069401

Filename

5069401