Power-Laws in a Large Object-Oriented Software System

We present a comprehensive study of an implementation of the Smalltalk object oriented system, one of the first and purest object-oriented programming environment, searching for scaling laws in its properties. We study ten system properties, including the distributions of variable and method names,...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 33; no. 10; pp. 687 - 708
Main Authors:	Concas, Giulio, Marchesi, Michele, Pinna, Sandro, Serra, Nicola
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.10.2007 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	Architecture C plus plus Computer programs D.2.3.a Object-oriented programming D.2.4.h Statistical methods D.2.8.a Complexity measures D.2.8.d Product metrics D.2.8.e Software science D.3.2.p Object-oriented languages Digital Object Identifier G.3.p Stochastic processes Graphs Java Java (programming language) Mathematical models Methods Object oriented Object oriented modeling Object oriented programming Open source software Power generation Power system modeling Process parameters Searching Shape measurement Software Software engineering Software systems Standard deviation Statistical analysis Statistical distributions Stochastic models Studies Tail
ISSN:	0098-5589, 1939-3520
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