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Cohesion Metrics for Predicting Maintainability of Service-Oriented Software
Abstract
Although service-oriented computing (SOC) is a promising paradigm for developing enterprise software systems, existing research mostly assumes the existence of black box services with little attention given to the structural characteristics of the implementing software, potentially resulting in poor system maintainability. Whilst there has been some preliminary work examining coupling in a service-oriented context, there has to date been no such work on the structural property of cohesion. Consequently, this paper extends existing notions of cohesion in OO and procedural design in order to account for the unique characteristics of SOC, allowing the derivation of assumptions linking cohesion to the maintainability of service-oriented software. From these assumptions, a set of metrics are derived to quantify the degree of cohesion of service oriented design constructs. Such design level metrics are valuable because they allow the prediction of maintainability early in the SDLC.
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- Authors
- Perepletchikov, M., Ryan, C., & Frampton, K.
- Affiliations
- RMIT University (AU)
- Venue
- Seventh International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2007)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 328-335
- ISSN
- 1550-6002 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2172220265
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.42
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS) (publishedVersion)
- RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Keywords
- cohesion metrics, service-oriented software, software maintainability, cohesion, coupling, maintainability prediction, service-oriented computing, object-oriented design, procedural design
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