This research models the effects of software reuse on object-oriented software development, in particular, the reuse of C++ classes. Two types of reuse (with and without modification) are compared. The common traits of programmers who tend to reuse are identified, and some object-oriented software metrics are correlated with the inherent reusability of a C++ class. These issues are important because software reuse has been shown to increase productivity within the software development process. This research effort describes three experiments. The first characterizes the effects of reusing C++ classes on object-oriented software development using nine development process indicators. The second experiment uses ten similar process indicators to differentiate the effects of writing C++ classes from scratch versus reusing them without modification versus inheriting new classes from existing ones. The last experiment correlates some object-oriented metrics with the expert opinions of the reusability of C++ classes. This research has shown that the black box reuse (reuse without modification) of C++ classes is beneficial to object-oriented software development in many ways. Development time is reduced and system reliability increases. For abstract data type C++ classes, a set of fifteen skills and experiences are shown to be prominent in frequent class reusers. Lastly, a set of object-oriented metrics is used to predict C++ class reusability. All of these results can be used to increase programmer productivity when developing C++ software systems. / Ph. D.

<p>This project presents the research on software visualization techniques. We will introduce the concepts of software visualization, software metrics and our proposed visualization techniques: Static Visualization (glyphs object with static texture) and Dynamic Visualization (glyphs object with moving object). Our intent to study the existing visualization techniques for visualization of software</p><p>metrics and then proposed the new visualization approach that is more time efficient and easy to perceive by viewer. In this project, we focus on the practical aspects of visualization of multivariate dataset. This project also gives an implementation of proposed visualization techniques of software metrics. In this research based work, we have to compare practically the proposed visualization approaches. We will discuss the software development life cycle of our proposed visualization system, and we will also describe the complete software implementation of implemented software.</p>

This project presents the research on software visualization techniques. We will introduce the concepts of software visualization, software metrics and our proposed visualization techniques: Static Visualization (glyphs object with static texture) and Dynamic Visualization (glyphs object with moving object). Our intent to study the existing visualization techniques for visualization of software metrics and then proposed the new visualization approach that is more time efficient and easy to perceive by viewer. In this project, we focus on the practical aspects of visualization of multivariate dataset. This project also gives an implementation of proposed visualization techniques of software metrics. In this research based work, we have to compare practically the proposed visualization approaches. We will discuss the software development life cycle of our proposed visualization system, and we will also describe the complete software implementation of implemented software.

Context. In recent years, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) has become a crucial part of software development processes. Therefore, modern software development processes led to an increase in demand for manual and automated code quality assurance. Manual code quality reviews can be a time-consuming and expensive process with varying results. Thus, automated code reviews turn out to be a preferred alternative for mitigating this process. However, commercial and open-source static code analyzer tools often offer deep analysis with long lead time. Objectives. In this thesis work, the main aim is to introduce an early code quality assurance tool, which features a combination of software metrics. The tool should be able to examine code quality and complexity of a telecommunication grade software product such as source code of specific Ericsson product by Ericsson. This tool should encapsulate complexity and quality of a software product with regards to its efficiency, scope, flexibility, and execution time. Methods. For this purpose, the background section of the thesis is dedicated to in-depth research on software metrics included in well-known static code analyzers. Then, development environment, under investigation source code of Ericsson product, and collected software metric for evaluation were presented. Next, according to each software metric’s characteristics, point of interest, and requirement, a set of steps based on a Susman’s action research cycle were defined. Moreover, SWAT, a suitable software analytics toolkit, employed to extract conducted experiment data of each software metric from a static analyzer code named Lizard in order to detect most efficient software metrics. Outcome of conducted experiment demonstrates relationship of selected software metrics with one another. Results. The chosen software metrics were evaluated based on a variety of vital factors especially actual data from number of defects of specific Ericsson product. Highly effective software metrics from investigations in this thesis work were implemented as a new model named hybrid model to be utilized as an early quality assurance. Conclusions. The proposed model, which consist of well-performing software metrics, demonstrate an impressive performance as an early code quality indicator. Consequently, the utilized model in this master thesis could be studied in a future research to further investigate the effectiveness and robustness of this tool an early quality assurance.

Os sistemas de modelagem de distribuição provável de espécie são utilizados para identificar regiões onde há maior probabilidade de uma determinada espécie viver, baseado nas características ambientais de localizações onde é conhecido que há presença daquela espécie. Estes sistemas requerem computação de alto desempenho devido à grande quantidade de dados que precisam ser processados para se gerar um modelo com a distribuição provável. Um momento importante do processo de modelagem de distribuição de espécies é a coleta dos dados, no qual os pesquisadores vão a campo para identificar alguns pontos de presença ou ausência, no entanto este processo é feito de forma ainda manual. Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de automação deste processo por meio da utilização de dispositivos móveis e arquitetura SOA. Historicamente, os sistemas que utilizam arquiteturas orientadas a serviço não consideram fortemente as limitações inerentes aos dispositivos móveis, tais como poder de processamento, capacidade de armazenamento e duração da bateria. A falta de uma infra-estrutura de referência para estes sistemas pode ser apontada como uma das causas deste problema. Assim, é proposta uma infra-estrutura de desenvolvimento para sistemas móveis que utilizam uma arquitetura orientada a serviços voltada à experiência do usuário. Esta infra-estrutura tem especial atenção a como as restrições dos sistemas móveis influenciam tanto a arquitetura de software quanto a apresentação dos serviços para o usuário final. Disserta-se sobre fatores e questões relevantes ao projeto de sistemas de natureza móvel sugerindo a sua consideração durante a elaboração de projetos semelhantes. São propostos também um conjunto de métricas para avaliação do desempenho para a realização de experimentos com o objetivo de validar os aspectos de usabilidade e arquitetura, além de identificar modificações na infra-estrutura proposta. / Species distribution modeling system are used to identify regions where there is the probability to a species survive, based on the environmental characteristics where there is for sure presence of a species. Those systems require high performance computation due the large amount of data that are processed in order to create the distribution model. An important moment of the modeling process is the data collecting, when the researchers go field to identify the localizations of presence or absence, but this process is still done manually. This paper presents a proposal for automating this process through the use of mobile devices and SOA architecture. Historically, systems using service oriented architectures do not consider strongly the limitations of mobile devices such as processing power, storage capacity and duration of battery. The lack of an infrastructure of reference for these systems can be considered one of the causes of this problem. Thus, we propose an infrastructure development for mobile systems using a service-oriented architecture focused on user experience. This infrastructure has special attention to the restrictions of mobile systems influence both the software architecture as the presentation of services to the end user. Mobile related issues are discussed suggesting its consideration during the development of similar projects. Also, it is proposed a set of metrics for performance evaluation to carry out experiments aimed at validating the architecture and usability aspects, and identify changes in the proposed infrastructure.

Métricas de código-fonte não são novidade, mas ainda não têm sido bem exploradas no desenvolvimento de software. A maioria das ferramentas de métricas mostra valores numéricos isolados, que não são fáceis de entender porque a interpretação deles depende do contexto da implementação. Esta dissertação apresenta o software livre Kalibro Metrics, que foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de melhorar a legibilidade de métricas de código-fonte. Kalibro, ao contrário das outras ferramentas, permite que o próprio usuário crie configurações de intervalos associados a avaliações qualitativas, incluindo comentários e recomendações. Usando essas configurações, o Kalibro mostra resultados de métricas de modo amigável, ajudando: arquitetos de software a detectar falhas de projeto; gerentes de projetos a controlar a qualidade de código-fonte; usuários de software e pesquisadores a comparar características específicas do código-fonte de vários projetos. Essas configurações podem ser compartilhadas e utilizadas para intermediar discussões voltadas à evolução de critérios de avaliação baseados em métricas de código-fonte. / Source code metrics are not new, but they have not yet been fully explored in software development. Most metric tools show isolated numeric values, which are not easy to understand because their interpretation depends on the implementation context. This dissertation presents the free software Kalibro Metrics, which was developed to improve readability of source code metrics. Kalibro, unlike the current tools, allows the user himself to create configurations of thresholds associated with qualitative evaluation, including comments and recommendations. Using these configurations, Kalibro shows metric results in a friendly way, helping: software architects to spot design flaws; project managers to control source code quality; software users and researchers to compare specific source code characteristics across software projects. These configurations can be shared and used to mediate discussions focused on the evolution of assessment criteria based on source code metrics.

Three of the most widely studied software dependency types are the structural, logical and semantic dependencies. Logical dependencies capture the degree of co-change between software artifacts. Semantic dependencies capture the degree to which artifacts, comments and names are related. Structural dependencies capture the dependencies in the source code of artifacts. Prior studies show that a combination of dependency analysis (e.g., semantic and logical analysis) improves accuracy when predicting which artifacts are likely to be impacted by ripple effects of software changes (though not to a large extent) compared to individual approaches. In addition, some dependencies could be hidden dependencies when an analysis of one dependency type (e.g., logical) does not reveal artifacts only linked by another dependency type (semantic). While previous studies have focused on combining dependency information with minimal benefits, this Thesis explores the consistency of these measurements, and whether hidden dependencies arise between artifacts, and in any of the axes studied. In this Thesis, 79 Java projects are empirically studied to investigate (i) the direct influence and the degree of overlap between dependency types on three axes (logical - structural (LSt); logical - semantic (LSe); structural - semantic (StSe)) (structural, logical and semantic), and (ii) the presence of hidden coupling on the axes. The results show that a high proportion of hidden dependencies can be detected on the LSt and StSe axes. Notwithstanding, the LSe axis shows a much smaller proportion of hidden dependencies. Practicable refactoring methods to mitigate hidden dependencies are proposed in the Thesis and discussed with examples.

Mutation testing has traditionally been used to evaluate the effectiveness of test suites and provide con dence in the testing process. Mutation testing involves the creation of many versions of a program each with a single syntactic fault. A test suite is evaluated against these program versions (i.e., mutants) in order to determine the percentage of mutants a test suite is able to identify (i.e., mutation score). A major drawback of mutation testing is that even a small program may yield thousands of mutants and can potentially make the process cost prohibitive. To improve the performance and reduce the cost of mutation testing, we proposed a machine learning approach to predict mutation score based on a combination of source code and test suite metrics. We conducted an empirical evaluation of our approach to evaluated its effectiveness using eight open source software systems. / UOIT

Our project presents the research on visualization of statistical contents. Here wewill introduce the concepts of visualization, software quality metrics andproposed visualization technique (line chart). Our aim to study the existingvisualization techniques for visualization of software metrics and then proposedthe visualization approach that is more time efficient and easy to perceive byviewer.In this project, we focus on the practical aspects of visualization of multipleprojects with respect to the versions and metrics. This project also gives animplementation of proposed visualization techniques of software metrics. In thisresearch based work, we have to compare practically the proposed visualizationapproaches. We will discuss the software development life cycle of our proposedvisualization system, and we will also describe the complete softwareimplementation of implemented software.

<p>Our project presents the research on visualization of statistical contents. Here wewill introduce the concepts of visualization, software quality metrics andproposed visualization technique (line chart). Our aim to study the existingvisualization techniques for visualization of software metrics and then proposedthe visualization approach that is more time efficient and easy to perceive byviewer.In this project, we focus on the practical aspects of visualization of multipleprojects with respect to the versions and metrics. This project also gives animplementation of proposed visualization techniques of software metrics. In thisresearch based work, we have to compare practically the proposed visualizationapproaches. We will discuss the software development life cycle of our proposedvisualization system, and we will also describe the complete softwareimplementation of implemented software.</p>