Software metrics for parallel programs

Software engineering has several fields one which is the study of static measurements of programs as indicators of their maintainability, reliability and clarity. There is a need to develop parallel software metrics. There are several ways to explore the feasibility and plausibility of parallel software metrics. One way is by proposing new metrics exclusively developed for parallel software. Another way is by applying the existing software metrics, originally proposed for sequential programs and analyzing their applicability. The authors have adopted both ways. The test suite for the study is a compendium of parallel programs. The compendium contains over 30 programs ranging in length from 500 to 14000 lines. All programs in the compendium were written in C on Intel´s iPSC/1 or iPSC/2 parallel computers