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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2014.19.2.183

A Quantitative Analysis of the Cyclomatic Complexity of the Web Software  

Kim, JeeHyun (Dept. of Computer Software, Seoil University)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.19, no.2, 2014 , pp. 183-191 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study Cyclomatic Complexity of Web Software has been analyzed quantitatively by correlation between complexity and Number of Classes(NOC), and Number of Methods(NOM) which are object oriented programming measures. Based on the frequency distribution of complexity, NOC and NOM of software at the Web environment, correlation between complexity threshold and NOC threshold, and NOM threshold has been measured and more than 4,000 ASP files of 10 Web real projects have been used as the sample. The empirical result shows that NOC threshold is 21, NOM threshold is 40 and complexity threshold is 68 as high value, and 8 projects among of 10 except 2 projects with especially high frequency distribution shows that NOC threshold is 12, NOM threshold is 21 and complexity threshold is 52 with relatively low value, so correlation has been found out as exists. And also 8 projects with low threshold of complexity, NOC and NOM were internal management software, and the other 2 projects were external sales service software, Number of Classes and Number of Methods can be defined at the design stage according to business properties, and also the complexity can be estimated in order to improve the software quality.
Keywords
Cyclomatic Complexity; NOC; NOM; threshold; Web software;
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