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Metrics for Measuring Quality of Real-time Design Patterns

Authors:
Saoussen Rekhis
Hela Marouane
Rafik Bouaziz
Claude Duvallet
Bruno Sadeg

Keywords: Reusability metrics; Amount of reuse metrics; Design pattern

Abstract:
In recent years, the influence of domain specific design patterns on software quality has attracted increasing attention in the area of software engineering. Indeed, such patterns facilitate the development process of systems, leading to efficient solutions for a particular domain. Since the usage of such patterns has been recommended, there is a need to evaluate their efficiency in a domain, i.e., they answer the question if the provided model encapsulates really the concepts tied to a particular domain. It is also important to determine the amount of pattern elements reuse in order to verify that the patterns cover the majority of domain concepts. The amount of reuse metrics determine how much pattern elements are reused in a designed system, whereas reusability metrics are intended to measure the degree to come up with the specificities of a particular domain in the patterns. Our proposal aims to adapt some existing reuse metrics and to define new metrics for reusability assessment. The usage of these metrics is illustrated through a case study in realtime domain.

Pages: 162 to 168

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-304-9

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013