Assessing software structure by entropy and information density

✍ Scribed by Cardoso, Ana Isabel; Crespo, Rui Gustavo; Kokol, Peter

• Book ID: 121378378
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 2004
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0163-5948
• DOI: 10.1145/979743.979756

✦ Synopsis

In this paper we show how the long range correlation and the local entropy measures in the software program can give indication about its structure. First we define a long range correlation and local entropy introducing a list of examples of use of those measures across different fields. We then present a method to calculate the long range correlation in the Software Engineering and we use that method in a Case Study. Finally we conclude that the use of those two metrics, borrowed from the complex systems theory, are potential and easier for measuring the object program structure.