Dynamic Metrics to Measure The Complexity Of Component-Based Software

Abstract

Software metrics have a very important place in every software development paradigm which measures all the attributes of software like reusability, testability, complexity and maintainability. Among all the attributes complexity is a very important factor which impacts all the attributes of software. Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) has become one of the preferable stream among all the development paradigms. In CBSE also complexity plays a very important role. The main constituent of Component-Based Software (CBS) is component so to manage complexity of a CBS it is necessary to control the complexity of a component before and after integration.

This paper presents dynamic metrics of CBS to measure the complexity of a component and CBS during execution to achieve better cohesion and coupling. The parameters used in proposed metrics are active components, interfaces used to interact with other components, execution time of functionality and methods in components.