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Tool Support for Cascading Style Sheets’ Complexity Metrics

Adewumi, A. O. and Emebo, Onyeka and Misra, Sanjay and Fernandez-Sanz, Luis (2015) Tool Support for Cascading Style Sheets’ Complexity Metrics. Communications in Computer and Information Science. pp. 551-560.

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Abstract

Tools are the fundamental requirement for acceptability of any metrics programme in the software industry. It is observed that majority of the metrics proposed and are available in the literature lack tool support. This is one of the reasons why they are not widely accepted by the practitioners. In order to improve the acceptability of proposed metrics among software engineers that develop Web applications, there is need to automate the process. In this paper, we have developed a tool for computing metrics for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and named it as CSS Analyzer (CSSA). The tool is capable of measuring different metrics, which are the representation of different quality attributes: which include understandability, reliability and maintainability based on some previously proposed metrics. The tool was evaluated by comparing its result on 40 cascading style sheets with results gotten by the manual process of computing the complexities. The results show that the tool computes in far less time when compared to the manual process and is 51.25% accurate.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Mr Adewole Adewumi
Date Deposited: 16 Apr 2015 18:16
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2016 16:40
URI: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/5047

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