Complexity Measurement of Large-Scale Software System Based on Complex Network

Journal of Networks

关键词: Whole Perspective;    Large-Scale Software System;    Complexity Measurement;    Complex Network Theory;    Software Complexity;   

Others  :  1017520
DOI  :  10.4304/jnw.9.5.1317-1324

【 摘 要 】

With the increase of software system complexity, the traditional measurements can not meet the requirements, for the reason that the developers need control the software quality effectively and guarantee the normal operation of software system. Hence how to measure the complexity of large-scale software system has been a challenge problem. In order to solve this problem, the developers have to obtain a good method to measure the complexity of software system first. Only through this work, the software quality and the software structure could be controlled and optimized. Note that the complex network theory has offered a new theoretical understanding and a new perspective to solve this kind of complexity problem, this work discusses the complexity phenomenon in large-scale software system. Based on this, some complexity measurements of large-scale software system are put forward from static structure and dynamic structure perspectives. Furthermore, we find some potential complexity characteristics in large-scale software networks through the numerical simulations. The proposed measurement methods have a guiding significance on the development for today's large-scale software system. In addition, this paper presents a new technique for the structural complexity measurements of large-scale software system

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