SWE6763 Spring 2011 – Student topics

1. SWE6763 Spring 2011 – Student topics Gary Smith ------ Security Ross Simmerman ---- Software Quality Assurance Brad Freriks ---- Data Base Complexity Radhika Godla --- Quality Shashank Jagirdar --- Quality/Usability Rand Williams – Formal OO metric (design/quality/complexity/etc.) Biran Hegerty – Metric theory

2. SWE 6763 – Project Topic (Gary Smith) • Area - Software Product Attribute Metrics – Security • Focus – Security Metrics of Object Oriented Design • After reading the last article in class regarding OO metrics, I wanted to explore this topic a bit deeper. I found a couple of interesting articles about security metrics in OO design. I believe this topic will be of interest to the class as it relates to the last article we read regarding OO metrics. Additionally, this topic will broaden mine and each of my classmates knowledge of software metrics as is the core of this particular class.

3. List for Gary smith • References: • Alshammari, B., Fidge, C. and Corney, D. (2010). Security Metrics for Object-Oriented Designs. Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), 2010 21st Australian. (pp. 55-64), IEEE. • Mellado, D., Fernandez-Medina, E. and Piattini, M. (2010). A Comparison of Software Design Security Metrics. Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume. (pp. 236-242), ACM. • Wang, J., Wang, H., Guo, M and Xia, M. (2009). Security Metrics for Software Systems. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Southeast Regional Conference. (pp. 1-6), ACM. • Krautsevich, L., Martinelli, F. and Yautsiukhin, A. (2010). Formal Approach to Security Metrics.: What does “more secure” mean for you? Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume. (pp. 162-169), ACM. • Beres, Y., Mont, M., Griffin, J. and Shiu, S. (2009). Using Security Metrics Coupled with Predictive Modeling and Simulation to Assess Security Processes. Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. (pp. 564-573). • Uses for above Articles: • The five articles noted above are going to be used to form the basis of my course project. My focus will be around the security attribute of software design and slanted toward OO designs. As with many other articles on metrics, there is controversy in the security metric as to how to measure, what should be measured and if that measurement is a good one to react on. There is a lot of good material in these articles. I do expect to add some additional articles to this list as there are several I am still reviewing which are showing promise, but I am not sure if they will fit in as of now. I believe my final reference list will be between five and ten sources when the project is complete.

4. Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Ross Simmerman Software Quality Assurance (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. The methods by which this is accomplished are many and varied, and may include ensuring conformance to one or more standards, such as ISO 9000 or a model such as CMMI. • Software Quality • Quality Assurance • ISO 9000

5. Software Quality AssuranceInspection by Ross Simmerman SWE 6763 4/12/11 Part B • The Role of Inspection in Software Quality Assurance by David L. Parnas and Mark Lawford. • Inspection’s Role in Software Quality Assurance by David L. Parnas and Mark Lawford. • Implementation of quality control in software development by Frank Tsui and Lew Priven. • A Paradigm for Metric Based Inspection Process for Enhancing Defect Management by T.R. Gopalakrishnan Nair.

6. SWE 6763, Spring 2011, Brad Freriks Project Topic Database Complexity Metrics for schema complexity Metrics for query complexity Metric suite for overall database complexity

7. SWE 6763, Spring 2011, Brad Freriks Project Articles Jamil, B. & Batool, A. (June 2010). SMARtS: Software Metric Analyzer for Relational Database Systems. Information and Emerging Technologies (ICIET) 2010 International Conference. Pavlic, M., Kaluza, M., & Vreek, N. (2008). Database Complexity Measuring Method. Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems, CECIIS – 2008. Retrieved from http://www.ceciis.foi.hr/app/index.php/ceciis/2008/paper/view/84. Justus, S. & Iyakutti, K. (2007). Accessing the Object-level Behavioral Complexity in Object Relational Databases. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Software-Science, Technology & Engineering, 48-56. Beckler, S. A. (2001). Developing Quality Complex Database Systems: Practices, Techniques, and Technologies. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing

8. Area of Interest: Software Product attribute metric – Quality By: Radhika Godla SWE 6763 – Project Title

9. Radhika Godla SWE 6763 – Project Assignment Area of Interest: Software Product Quality Metrics List of articles I would be using for this Project assignment are as follows: Software Product metrics – Using them to quantify design and code quality. Author: Wei Li Software Products Quality Improvement with a Programming style guide and a Measurement Process. Author: A. Ayerbe, I. Vazquez A WWW Based Software Metrics Environment for software process management and software product Quality Improvement Authors: Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu & Ravi Viswanathan The effects of development team skill on Software product quality Authors: Justin M. Beaver & Guy A. Schiavone Experiences of software quality management using Metrics through the Life-cycle Authors: Hideto Ogasawara, Atsushi Yamada & Michiko Kojo The state of Metrics in software Industry Authors: Mauricio J. Ordonez & Hisham M.Haddad I would most likely use the following articles for my project: Software Product metrics – Using them to quantify design and code quality. Author: Wei Li Experiences of software quality management using Metrics through the Life-cycle Authors: Hideto Ogasawara, Atsushi Yamada & Michiko Kojo The state of Metrics in software Industry Authors: Mauricio J. Ordonez & Hisham M.Haddad A WWW Based Software Metrics Environment for software process management and software product Quality Improvement Authors: Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu & Ravi Viswanathan

10. The area I will be looking at is Software Product Attribute Metrics. • More particularly, I will try to narrow down my focus to the “quality” and “usability” attributes. • Quality is more important than ever and the application of quality metrics in various design and development environments will be looked at. Shashank Jagirdar

11. Shashank’s list • Sanjay Kumar Dubey and Ajay Rana, “Assessment of Usability Metrics for Object-Oriented Software System,” ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , November 2011. • Jeff Winter, Kari Rö, Mårten Ahlberg, Mark Hinely and Mats Hellman, “Developing Quality through Measuring Usability – The UTUM Test Package,” Fifth International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ'07) • Sanjay Kumar Dubey and Ajay Rana, “Usability Estimation of Software System by using Object-Oriented Metrics,” ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, March 2011.

12. Brian’s List • "Software Measurement: Uncertainty and Causal Modelling"  Fenton, Krause, Neil • "Modeling Software Measurement Data" Kitchenham, Hughes, Linkman • "Software metrics: successes, failures and new directions" Fenton, Neil • "What accuracy statistics really measure" Kitchenham, Pickard, MacDonell, Shepperd • "Measurement Modeling Technology" Lawler, Kitchenham

13. Numbers Chart • choice = 1st number • real turn = 2nd number • (1, 3); (2, 4); (3, 6); (4, 7); (5, 1); (6, 2); (7, 5)