Preeti Kaur

Work place: Department of Computer Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, INDIA

E-mail: preetikaur1@rediffmail.com

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Research Interests: Software Construction, Software Development Process, Software Engineering

Biography

Preeti Kaur did her M.Tech in Information Systems and pursuing Ph.D. from University of Delhi, India. Currently she is working as Associate Professor in the Division of Computer Engineering at NSIT, University of Delhi, India. Her research interests include Requirement engineering, Object oriented analysis and design, Agile software development.

Author Articles
Empirical and Theoretical Validation of a Use Case Diagram Complexity Metric

By Sangeeta Sabharwal Preeti Kaur Ritu Sibal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2017.11.04, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2017

A key artifact produced during object oriented requirements analysis is Use Case Diagram. Functional requirements of the system under development and relationship of the system and the external world are displayed with the help of Use Case Diagram. Therefore, the quality aspect of the artifact Use Case Diagram must be assured in order to build good quality software. Use Case Diagram quality is assessed by metrics that have been proposed in the past by researchers, based on Use Case Diagram countable features such as the number of actors, number of scenarios per Use Case etc., but they have not considered Use Case dependency relations for metric calculation. In our previous paper, we had proposed a complexity metric. This metric was defined considering association relationships and dependency prevailing in the Use Case Diagram. The key objective in this paper is to validate this complexity metric theoretically by using Briand’s Framework and empirically by performing a Controlled experiment. The results show that we are able to perform the theoretical and empirical validation successfully.

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