Goulão, M., and F. B. Abreu,
"An overview of metrics-based approaches to support software components reusability assessment",
Software Quality Measurement: Concepts and Approaches, Hyderabad, ICFAI Books, pp. 264, 2007.
AbstractObjective: To present an overview on the current state of the art concerning metrics-based
quality evaluation of software components and component assemblies.
Method: Comparison of several approaches available in the literature, using a framework
comprising several aspects, such as scope, intent, definition technique, and maturity.
Results: The identification of common shortcomings of current approaches, such as
ambiguity in definition, lack of adequacy of the specifying formalisms and insufficient
validation of current quality models and metrics for software components.
Conclusions: Quality evaluation of components and component-based infrastructures
presents new challenges to the Experimental Software Engineering community.
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