Dependency Profiles for Software Architecture Evaluations

Title

Dependency Profiles for Software Architecture Evaluations

 Author

Bouwers, E.
Van Deursen, A.
Visser, J.

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

 Department

Software Technology

 Date

2011-09-22

 Abstract

In this paper we introduce the concept of a -dependency profile-, a system level metric aimed at quantifying the level of encapsulation and independence within a system. We verify that these profiles are suitable to be used in an evaluation context by inspecting the dependency profiles for a repository of almost 100 systems. Furthermore we outline the steps we are taking to validate the usefulness and applicability of the proposed profiles. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2011, IEEE Computer Society.

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 Publisher

Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group

 ISSN

1872-5392

 Source

Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2011-015

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

report

 Rights

(c) 2011 The authors. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology.
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