Thesis (Ph. D. in Software Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002. / Dissertation advisor: Luqi. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-349). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 124 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-124).

Thesis (M.S.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 152-237. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-240).

Thesis (M.S.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 152-237. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-240).

The goal of this research is to validate the methodology used while investigating metrics directed verification of Unified Modeling Language (UML) based designs. This document is organized into five distinct sections. The topics discussed include an introduction to the UML, a discussion of available software metrics, a tutorial regarding the nature of design metrics, a discussion of available UML metrics, and the empirical study results. The empirical study presents detailed information regarding how UML class diagrams can be mapped to design metrics, a discussion on how the data was collected and verified, the results obtained during this study, what conclusions were drawn from the data, and recommendations for future research topics. Preliminary findings indicate that a correlation does exist between the external design complexity measure and the UML class diagrams. / Department of Computer Science

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 276-279). Also available in print.

Dissertation submitted for the fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Masters in Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Accounting and Informatics, Durban University of Technology, 2008. / Competitive pressure on the software industry encourages organizations to examine the effectiveness of their software development and evolutionary processes. Therefore it is important that software is measured in order to improve the quality. The question is not whether we should measure software but how it should be measured. Software measurement has been in existence for over three decades and it is still in the process of becoming a mature science. The many influences of new software development technologies have led to a diverse growth in software measurement technologies which have resulted in various definitions and validation techniques. An important aspect of software measurement is the measurement of the design, which nowadays often means the measurement of object oriented design. Chidamer and Kemerer (1994) designed a metric suite for object oriented design, which has provided a new foundation for metrics and acts as a starting point for further development of the software measurement science. This study documents theoretical object oriented cohesion metrics and calculates those metrics for classes extracted from a sample of open source software packages. For each open source software package, the following data is recorded: software size, age, domain, number of developers, number of bugs, support requests, feature requests, etc. The study then tests by means of association rules which theoretical cohesion metrics are validated hypothesis: that older software is more cohesive than younger software, bigger packages is less cohesive than smaller packages, and the smaller the software program the more maintainable it is. This study attempts to validate existing theoretical object oriented cohesion metrics by mining open source software data with association rules.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2008. / Vita: p. 192. Thesis director: Alexander H. Levis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-191). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Computer Science and Engineering. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-88). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR29276

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 126 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-126).