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Comparing Static and Dynamic Weighted Software Coupling Metrics

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Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2019)

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Coupling metrics are an established way to measure software architecture quality with respect to modularity. Static coupling metrics are obtained from the source or compiled code of a program, while dynamic metrics use runtime data gathered e.g., by monitoring a system in production. We study weighted dynamic coupling that takes into account how often a connection is executed during a system’s run. We investigate the correlation between dynamic weighted metrics and their static counterparts. We use data collected from four different experiments, each monitoring production use of a commercial software system over a period of four weeks. We observe an unexpected level of correlation between the static and the weighted dynamic case as well as revealing differences between class- and package-level analyses.

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    See [19] for a discussion of the relationship between this metric and Spearman’s correlation.

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    A replication package inlcuding the collected data of our experiments will soon be published on Zenodo, to allow other researchers to repeat and extend our work.

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Schnoor, H., Hasselbring, W. (2019). Comparing Static and Dynamic Weighted Software Coupling Metrics. In: Damaševičius, R., Vasiljevienė, G. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1078. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30275-7_22

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