Semantic metrics for software products |
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Authors: | A. Mili A. Jaoua M. Frias Rasha Gaffer Mohamed Helali |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Computer Science, NJIT, Newark, NJ?, 07102-1982, USA 2. Department of Computer Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar 3. Department of Software Engineering, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina 4. College of Engineering, SUST, Khartoum, Sudan
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Abstract: | Like all engineering disciplines, software engineering relies on quantitative analysis to support rationalized decision making. Software engineering researchers and practitioners have traditionally relied on software metrics to quantify attributes of software products and processes. Whereas traditional software metrics are typically based on a syntactic analysis of software products, we introduce and discuss metrics that are based on a semantic analysis: our metrics do not reflect the form or structure of software products, but rather the properties of their function. At a time when software systems grow increasingly large and complex, the focus on diagnosing, identifying and removing every fault in the software product ought to relinquish the stage to a more measured, more balanced, and more realistic approach, which emphasizes failure avoidance, in addition to fault avoidance and fault removal. Semantic metrics are a good fit for this purpose, reflecting as they do a system’s ability to avoid failure rather than its proneness to being free of faults. |
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