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Article Citation - WoS: 29Citation - Scopus: 37Metrics Suite for Maintainability of Extensible Markup Language Web Services(inst Engineering Technology-iet, 2011) Baski, D.; Misra, S.The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) web services are emerging as the de-facto mechanism for exchanging structured information between applications. The large popularity and acceptance of web services led the developers to adopt the best practices of web service implementation and to find the ways for managing and maintaining web services more effectively. Maintainability, one of the important factors, which affects the quality of XML web services, can be controlled by the proper software metrics that are specifically designed and developed for it. In this paper, we present a suite of metrics to evaluate the quality of the XML web service in terms of its maintainability. The present suite of metrics includes: data weight of a web service description language, distinct message ratio metric, message entropy metric and message repetition scale metric. All the proposed metrics have been evaluated theoretically and validated empirically. A comparative study with similar measures proves the worth of the metric suite.Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 25Framework for Evaluation and Validation of Software Complexity Measures(inst Engineering Technology-iet, 2012) Misra, S.; Akman, I.; Colomo-Palacios, R.This study proposes a framework for the evaluation and validation of software complexity measure. This framework is designed to analyse whether or not software metric qualifies as a measure from different perspectives. Unlike existing frameworks, it takes into account the practical usefulness of the measure and includes all the factors that are important for theoretical and empirical validation including measurement theory. The applicability of the framework is tested by using cognitive functional size measure. The testing process shows that in the same manner the proposed framework can be applied to any software measure. A comparative study with other frameworks has also been performed. The results reflect that the present framework is a better representation of most of the parameters that are required to evaluate and validate a new complexity measure.
