255 research outputs found
Proceedings of 11th Symposium on Programming Languages and Software Tools and 7th Nordic Workshop on Model Driven Software Engineering
Robert C. Martin presented a software metric for a set of classes i.e. a package. The objective of the package level metric is to identify poorly designed packages. The Martin's metric actually consists of eight metrics which measure a few different characteristics of packages. The metric is widely known, but there is lack of theoretical and empirical evaluation of the Martinâs metric. This paper evaluates the theoretical background of the metric against an evaluation framework and presents an experimental evaluation of ïŹve open-source software applications. The theoretical validation reveals a weakness in Martin's definition for cohesion. We propose a modification which is valid according to the evaluation framework.
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The General Data Protection Regulation: Requirements, Architectures, and Constraints
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union is the
most famous recently enacted privacy regulation. Despite of the regulation's
legal, political, and technological ramifications, relatively little research
has been carried out for better understanding the GDPR's practical implications
for requirements engineering and software architectures. Building on a grounded
theory approach with close ties to the Finnish software industry, this paper
contributes to the sealing of this gap in previous research. Three questions
are asked and answered in the context of software development organizations.
First, the paper elaborates nine practical constraints under which many small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often operate when implementing solutions
that address the new regulatory demands. Second, the paper elicits nine
regulatory requirements from the GDPR for software architectures. Third, the
paper presents an implementation for a software architecture that complies both
with the requirements elicited and the constraints elaborated.Comment: Forthcoming in the 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering
Conference (RE'19), Jeju Island, IEE
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