Investigating Differences and Commonalities of Software Metric Tools

Lerina Aversano, Carmine Grasso, Pasquale Grasso, Maria Tortorella

2017

Abstract

The availability of quality models and metrics that permit an objective evaluation of the quality level of a software product is a relevant aspect for supporting software engineers during their development tasks. In addition, the adoption of software analysis tools that facilitate the measurement of software metrics and application of the quality models can ease the evaluation tasks. This paper proposes a preliminary investigation on the behaviour of existing software metric tools. Specifically, metrics values have been computed by using the different software analysis tools for three software systems of different sizes. Measurements show that, for the same software system and metrics, the software analysis tools provide different values. This could impact on the overall software quality evaluation for the aspect based on the selected metrics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aversano L., Grasso C., Grasso P. and Tortorella M. (2017). Investigating Differences and Commonalities of Software Metric Tools . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-262-2, pages 249-256. DOI: 10.5220/0006416602490256

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft17,
author={Lerina Aversano and Carmine Grasso and Pasquale Grasso and Maria Tortorella},
title={Investigating Differences and Commonalities of Software Metric Tools},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2017},
pages={249-256},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006416602490256},
isbn={978-989-758-262-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Investigating Differences and Commonalities of Software Metric Tools
SN - 978-989-758-262-2
AU - Aversano L.
AU - Grasso C.
AU - Grasso P.
AU - Tortorella M.
PY - 2017
SP - 249
EP - 256
DO - 10.5220/0006416602490256