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Several software quality metrics have been proposed during the last decades to reduce risks and faultiness during software development. Despite these many efforts, most defined measurements fail to reach a satisfactory level of performance due to the ambiguities detected in the way their definitions are expressed and later on interpreted. The paper introduces a formal extension of a well-known library of measures named FLAME. While this library is expressed using the semi-formal language OCL (Object Constraint Language) upon the UML meta-model, our extension make use of formal methods to provide a more precise and accurate measurements by proposing a formal definitions of software metrics upon a formal expression of the UML metamodel. Unlike the original definition of the library, this extension supports formal proofs and guarantees a unique interpretation which allows the built of tools support.
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Lamrani, M., El Amrani, Y., Ettouhami, A. (2014). Towards a Formal Library for Precise and Accurate Measurements. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09156-3_44
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