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Evaluation of a Business Application Framework Using Complexity and Functionality Metrics

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Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001)

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This paper experimentally evaluates the usefulness of a business application framework from a viewpoint of saving cost and quality of the software in a company. Here, we conducted two case studies. In the case studies, four kinds of applications are developed. Each of them is developed in two ways: using framework-based reuse and conventional module-based reuse. Then, we evaluate the difference among them using the several functionality and complexity metrics. As the results, the framework-based reuse would be more efficient than the module-based reuse in the company.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Hikaru Fujiwara, Shinji Kusumoto & Katsuro Inoue

  2. Business Solution Systems Division, Hitachi Ltd., Japan

    Toshifusa Ootsubo & Katsuhiko Yuura

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  1. Hikaru Fujiwara
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  1. Fraunhofer IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Bomarius

  2. VTT Electronics, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Fujiwara, H., Kusumoto, S., Inoue, K., Ootsubo, T., Yuura, K. (2001). Evaluation of a Business Application Framework Using Complexity and Functionality Metrics. In: Bomarius, F., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44813-6_31

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