Empirical Tests of Scale-Free Characteristic in Open Source Software: A Replicated Case Study

Fang Jun Wu

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.622-623.1933

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Empirical Tests of Scale-Free Characteristic in Open Source Software: A Replicated Case Study

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Open source software systems are becoming increasingly important these days and will grow stronger in the future. In order to gain more information about them, their structure characteristics and behavior characteristics need to be measured. This paper tests scale free characteristics on open source real-world software empirically. More specially, this paper checks whether Chidamber and Kemerer metrics suite follows power law or not through three versions of Weka. Our empirical results showed that the features of complex networks didn’t exist in Weka.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 622-623)

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Fang Jun Wu

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Chidamber Metrics, Complex Network, Kemerer Metrics, Open Source Software, Power-Laws, Scale Free

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