Do Internal Software Quality Tools Measure Validated Metrics?
Paper in proceeding, 2019

Internal software quality determines the maintainability of the software product and influences the quality in use. There is a plethora of metrics which purport to measure the internal quality of software, and these metrics are offered by static software analysis tools. To date, a number of reports have assessed the validity of these metrics. No data are available, however, on whether metrics offered by the tools are somehow validated in scientific studies. The current study covers this gap by providing data on which tools and how many validated metrics are provided. The results show that a range of metrics that the tools provided do not seem to be validated in the literature and that only a small percentage of metrics are validated in the provided tools.

Metrics

Static analysis tools

Attributes

Software metrics tools

Author

Mayra Nilson

Volvo

Vard Antinyan

Volvo

Lucas Gren

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers)

Volvo

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 11915 LNCS 637-648
9783030353322 (ISBN)

20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2019
Barcelona, Spain,

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_50

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10/27/2023