The Measurement and Analysis of Software Change Based on Software Repository
Software changes are mevitable during software evolution. And knowing little about changes is the most significant reason which increased the cost and risk of the changes. The approach of change complexity measurement based on software repositories is proposed in this paper. The atomic change types are defined. The change complexity model and related metric indictors are presented. And the automatic change measuring tool, shorted as CMT, based on the proposed method has been implemented, which can be used to measure the change complexity of java projects. Then the simple way to analyze the frequently changed classes and change couplings is introduced.Finally, the proposed systematic approach has been evaluated on a multi-version medium sized open source project called JEdit, which indicates the simplicity and rationality of our approach.
software change change complexity change measuring tool
Lin Li Li Zhang Linqing Lu Zhiqiang Fan
School of Computer Science and Engineering Beihang University Beijing, P.R.China
国际会议
成都
英文
214-219
2010-06-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）