Transforming quantities into qualities in assessment of software systems

Proceedings 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference. COMPAC 2003 Pub Date : 2003-11-03 DOI:10.1109/CMPSAC.2003.1245359

G. Canfora, L. Cerulo, L. Troiano

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The assessment of software systems often requires to consider together qualitative and quantitative aspects. Because of the different nature, measures belong to different domains. The main problem is to aggregate such information into a derived measure able to provide an overall estimation. This problem has been traditionally solved trough the transformation of qualitative assessments into quantitative measures. Indeed, such a transformation implicitly assumes a conceptual equivalence between the terms quantitative and objective on one side, and qualitative and subjective on the other side. An alternative approach is to consider logical aggregation models, able to infer the overall evaluation based on the assessment of individual attributes. This approach requires an early transformation of quantitative measures in qualitative assessments. Such a transformation is possible trough the use of judgment functions. The aim of this paper is to introduce the judgment functions and to study their properties.

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在软件系统评估中将数量转化为质量

软件系统的评估通常需要同时考虑定性和定量两个方面。由于性质不同，度量属于不同的领域。主要的问题是将这些信息汇总到一个能够提供总体估计的派生度量中。这个问题传统上是通过将定性评价转变为定量措施来解决的。事实上，这种转化含蓄地假定量的和客观的，质的和主观的，两者在概念上是等同的。另一种方法是考虑逻辑聚合模型，它能够根据对单个属性的评估推断出总体评估。这种方法要求在质量评估中尽早改变定量措施。通过使用判断函数可以实现这种转换。本文的目的是介绍判断函数并研究其性质。

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