An Empirical Study Investigating the Predictors of Software Metric Correlation in Application Code and Test Code.

On non-trivial software, the large test code base needs adequate maintenance similarly to the application code. Using complexity metrics on large software reveals that Application code is more complex than test code but not necessarily so much more, Test code is not as simple as it should be and may therefore be very complex to maintain, and open source software are not adequately tested. While a number of authors hypothesize and experimentally confirm that CC has a very strong correlation with LOC, justifying the use of LOC in place of CC (and Halstead Effort), this strong correlation is prevalent only in production code as results indicate a very weak correlation in test code between LOC, CC and Halstead Effort. The kind of code, the kind of software and the kind of metric determines the extent of monotonicity software metrics and would be inappropriate to substitute one metric with another.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Applied Science (M.App.Sc.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Engineering, Electrical and Computer

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Afriyie, Daniel Kwame Dapaah

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• Copyright © 2020 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2020-13954

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/40709