TY  - JOUR
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79960364100&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-22203-0_6&partnerID=40&md5=c113445b648d7d8aff676a5bf242dd11
CY  - Kuantan
N1  - cited By 0; Conference of 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems, ICSECS 2011 ; Conference Date: 27 June 2011 Through 29 June 2011; Conference Code:85603
SP  - 66
IS  - PART 3
SN  - 18650929
TI  - Metrics based variability assessment of code assets
ID  - scholars2000
A1  - Fazal-E-Amin
A1  - Mahmood, A.K.
A1  - Oxley, A.
Y1  - 2011///
AV  - none
N2  - The potential benefits of software reuse motivate the use of component based software development and software product lines. In these software development methodologies software assets are being reused. Variability management is a tenet of software reuse. Variability is the capacity of software to satisfy variant requirements. Variability, being the central player in reuse and an important characteristic of reusable components, needs to be measured. In this paper we acknowledge this need and identify measures of variability. Variability implementation mechanisms are analyzed followed by metrics. The metrics are applied on open source component code and the results are validated by an experiment carried out with human subjects. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
VL  - 181 CC
JF  - Communications in Computer and Information Science
KW  - Component-based software development; Human subjects; Implementation mechanisms; metrics; Open-source components; Potential benefits; Reusable components; Software assets; Software development methodologies; Software Product Line; variability implantation; Variability management
KW  -  Computer software reusability; Software design
KW  -  Open systems
EP  - 75
ER  -