An Information Theory Word-Based Metric to Evaluate Software Maintainability and Reusability.
Hector M. OlagueLetha H. EtzkornPublished in: Software Engineering Research and Practice (2005)
Keyphrases
- information theory
- software reuse
- information theoretic
- design patterns
- software systems
- software architecture
- software maintenance
- source code
- statistical mechanics
- statistical learning
- software development
- software quality
- jensen shannon divergence
- conditional entropy
- information geometry
- quality attributes
- software components
- shannon entropy
- maintenance effort
- aspect oriented programming
- mutual information
- statistical physics
- software engineering
- kullback leibler divergence
- mdl principle
- relative entropy
- development process
- metric space
- fisher information
- distance function
- open source