Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications: A Replicated Study

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• 关键词：Functional size measurement ; COSMIC ; Android mobile applications ; Code size measure ; LOC ; Empirical study
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9459
• 期：1
• 页码：271-287
• 全文大小：200 KB
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• 作者单位：Filomena Ferrucci (17)
  Carmine Gravino (17)
  Pasquale Salza (17)
  Federica Sarro (18)
  
  17. Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
  18. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
  
• 丛书名：Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
• ISBN：978-3-319-26844-6
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

In this paper we apply a measurement procedure proposed by van Heeringen and van Gorp to approximate the COSMIC size of mobile applications. We compare this procedure with the one introduced by D’Avanzo et al. We also replicate an empirical study recently carried out to assess whether the COSMIC functional size of mobile applications can be used to estimate the size of the final applications in terms of lines of code, number of bytes of the source code and bytecode. The results showed that the COSMIC functional size evaluated with van Heeringen and van Gorp’s method was well correlated to all the size measures taken into account. Nevertheless, the prediction accuracy did not satisfy the evaluation criteria and turned out ot be slightly worse than the one obtained in the original study and based on the approach proposed by D’Avanzo et al.