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Understanding and Measuring of the large-scale Object-oriented software system has been an urgent demand in software development practices. The traditional method can hardly describe the structural latent characteristic in modern software. As the complex networks theory has been used to study the software structure, we analyzed many software systems. The analyzing results reveal the parameters in complex networks can be used to represent property of software topology structure. And this paper introduces some efficient measuring methods based on basic parameters in complex networks. A practice example was described to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.
This work is supported by CNSF Grant #60973022 to Z. Hai.
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Haohua, Z., Hai, Z., Yuren, Z., Lijuan, W. (2011). Analysis of Topology Structure of Object-Oriented Software System Based on Complex Networks. In: Zhang, J. (eds) Applied Informatics and Communication. ICAIC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23226-8_66
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