Evaluating Quality of Software Component using Metrics
Gagan Negi2015
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Abstract
The main aim of software engineering community is to provide a high quality system or a product. To achieve this in recent years, many considerable efforts have put by software engineers in to the design and development of Component based software system (CBSS).This Paper presents some such efforts by using measurement tools and technique, i.e. through the effective software metrics. We provide an account of novel software measures for component by adequate coupling, cohesion and interface metrics. The advantages of our technique are discussed as well through a case study in this paper. Introduction Component-based software (CBS) construction has brought a new revolution in software engineering. Component based software engineering is a methodology that emphasizes the design and construction of computer-based systems using reusable component. It’s also developing a kind of software which relies on reuse and it emerged from the failure of object oriented development. Component provid...
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