Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS'02)
Architectural Tradeoffs at the Object Level
Ottawa, Canada
June 04-June 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1339-5
In this study, we discuss tradeoffs for the software architecture of object-based systems such as Ada83. External and internal complexities are specified for Ada packages and these complexities are related to the numbers of defects uncovered during testing using non-linear ordinal response models. The non-linear relationships among the software measures are exploited to identify optimal relationships between context coupling and the number of visible declarations in Ada packages.