An Empirical Study of Social Networks Metrics in Object-Oriented Software
Joint Authors
Marchesi, Michele
Concas, Giulio
Murgia, Alessandro
Tonelli, Roberto
Source
Advances in Software Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2010, Issue 2010 (31 Dec. 2010), pp.1-21, 21 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2010-11-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We study the application to object-oriented software of new metrics, derived from Social Network Analysis.
Social Networks metrics, as for instance, the EGO metrics, allow to identify the role of each single node in the information flow through the network, being related to software modules and their dependencies.
These metrics are compared with other traditional software metrics, like the Chidamber-Kemerer suite, and software graph metrics.
We examine the empirical distributions of all the metrics, bugs included, across the software modules of several releases of two large Java systems, Eclipse and Netbeans.
We provide analytical distribution functions suitable for describing and studying the observed distributions.
We study also correlations among metrics and bugs.
We found that the empirical distributions systematically show fat-tails for all the metrics.
Moreover, the various metric distributions look very similar and consistent across all system releases and are also very similar in both the studied systems.
These features appear to be typical properties of these software metrics.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Concas, Giulio& Marchesi, Michele& Murgia, Alessandro& Tonelli, Roberto. 2010. An Empirical Study of Social Networks Metrics in Object-Oriented Software. Advances in Software Engineering،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-21.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Concas, Giulio…[et al.]. An Empirical Study of Social Networks Metrics in Object-Oriented Software. Advances in Software Engineering No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-21.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Concas, Giulio& Marchesi, Michele& Murgia, Alessandro& Tonelli, Roberto. An Empirical Study of Social Networks Metrics in Object-Oriented Software. Advances in Software Engineering. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-21.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-494065