Estimating the quality of functional programs: an empirical investigation

✍ Scribed by R Harrison; L.G. Samaraweera; M.R. Dobie; P.H. Lewis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 850 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-5849
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(96)81747-2

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes an investigation into estimating the quality of functional programs. The work reported here is part of a larger, ongohrg study into a quautitative analysis of the effect of utilizing different programming paradigms on code quality. Before undertaking such a comparative analysis it was necessary to establish a baseline of quality indicators which could then be used as metrics for the remainder of the project. Thus the aim of the research presented here was to evaluate a set of suggested indicators corresponding to internal attributes by investigating the correlation between the suggested indicators and the desired external qualitytype attributes of the code. A method for the evaluation of the suggested metrics is discussed and the results of performing such an evaluation for functional programs are presented.