| Author(s) |
Rudolf Ramler
Klaus Wolfmaier
Thomas Natschläger
|
| Title |
Observing distributions in size metrics: Experience from analyzing large software systems |
| Booktitle |
Proc. 31st IEEE Int. Computer Software and Applications Conference |
| Typ |
Inproceedings |
| Month |
July |
| Year |
2007 |
| Volume |
II |
| Pages |
299-304 |
| Publisher |
IEEE Computer Society |
| Address |
Beijing, China |
| ISBN |
0-7695-2870-8 |
| SCCH # |
0707 |
| In this paper we observe and compare distributions
of popular size metric values from the analysis of different
software systems as well as from different consecutive
versions of one software system. The typically
heavy-tailed distributions are visualized and discussed
with the help of Pareto diagrams. We found that the
distributions remain remarkable stable over time, support
the identification of problem areas by statistical
and relative threshold-based filtering, and show the
ability to reveal the fundamental characteristics of a
software system. |