WEAK MEASUREMENT THEORY AND MODIFIED COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY MEASURE

Sanjay Misra, Hürevren Kiliç

2007

Abstract

Measurement is one of the problems in the area of software engineering. Since traditional measurement theory has a major problem in defining empirical observations on software entities in terms of their measured quantities, Morasca has tried to solve this problem by proposing Weak Measurement theory. In this paper, we tried to evaluate the applicability of weak measurement theory by applying it on a newly proposed Modified Cognitive Complexity Measure (MCCM). We also investigated the applicability of Weak Extensive Structure for deciding on the type of scale for MCCM. It is observed that the MCCM is on weak ratio scale.

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Misra S. and Kiliç H. (2007). WEAK MEASUREMENT THEORY AND MODIFIED COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY MEASURE . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8111-10-4, pages 19-24. DOI: 10.5220/0002585400190024


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@conference{enase07,
author={Sanjay Misra and Hürevren Kiliç},
title={WEAK MEASUREMENT THEORY AND MODIFIED COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY MEASURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2007},
pages={19-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002585400190024},
isbn={978-989-8111-10-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - WEAK MEASUREMENT THEORY AND MODIFIED COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY MEASURE
SN - 978-989-8111-10-4
AU - Misra S.
AU - Kiliç H.
PY - 2007
SP - 19
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0002585400190024