Traceable Complexity Metric from Requirements to code

Abstract

Complexity metrics are one of the useful measurements to determine the quality of a target software. However, the measurements are only applied and isolated in one specific development phase and there are no metrics that can show the quality (and the evolution) of the same software artifact in all development phases. In this paper, we propose a methodology to use a traceable metric to measure software artifacts from requirements to source code. Specifically, we validate our approach on transactions defined in use cases and implemented in source code, and some initial results show that our approach is promising to solve the problem of tracing software artifacts during the software development process.