NDLI: Benchmarking library and application software with Data Envelopment Analysis

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Author	Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander Stiakakis, Emmauil
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Library software is generally believed to be well-structured and follows certain design guidelines due to the need of continuous evolution and stability of the respective APIs. We perform an empirical study to investigate whether the design of open-source library software is actually superior to that of application software. By analyzing certain design principles and heuristics that are considered important for API design, we extract a set of software metrics that are expected to reflect the improved nature of libraries. An initial comparison by conventional statistical analysis confirms the overall belief that products of different software size scale should not be compared by simply examining metric values in isolation. In this paper, we propose the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), borrowed from production economics, as a means of measuring and benchmarking the quality of different object-oriented software designs captured by software metrics and apply this approach to the comparison of library and application software. The advantages offered by DEA and the differences between the application of DEA in an economic and a technological context are discussed. Results of the approach are presented for 44 open-source projects, equally divided between libraries and applications.
Starting Page	553
Ending Page	578
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09639314
Journal	Software Quality Journal
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15731367
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-09-19
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Object-oriented design Software metrics Benchmarking Data Envelopment Analysis Efficiency Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Operating Systems Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Media Technology Software

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