Dependency Profiles for Software Architecture Evaluations

Report (2011)
Department
Software Technology (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2011 The authors. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology.
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22-09-2011

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Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2011-015

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Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the concept of a -dependency profile-, a system level metric aimed at quantifying the level of encapsulation and independence within a system. We verify that these profiles are suitable to be used in an evaluation context by inspecting the dependency profiles for a repository of almost 100 systems. Furthermore we outline the steps we are taking to validate the usefulness and applicability of the proposed profiles. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2011, IEEE Computer Society.