Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ogicse!uidaho!med.cs.uidaho.edu!oman From: oman@med.cs.uidaho.edu Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Metric for Requirements Complexity? Keywords: SRS, FS, metrics, system complexity Message-ID: <1991May29.161749.2958@groucho> Date: 29 May 91 16:17:49 GMT References: Sender: @groucho Organization: University of Idaho Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: med.cs.uidaho.edu In article gary@suite.sw.oz.au (Gary Corby) writes: >Given two Software Requirements Specifications, is there a metric which >will describe the relative complexity of the systems they describe? >Please note I am referring to the complexity of the system, rather than any >sort of stylistic measure of the document per se. > For two years I tried to do this using standardized IEEE-formated SRS documents. All of my attempts failed because of the natural language component of the SRS content (ie., it cannot be parsed). I was, however, successful in measuring complexity of design documents, as were a number of other researchers. For design metrics see my paper in Journal of Sys. & Software, July, 1990, or the papers by Deiter Rombach and Sallie Henry in IEEE Software, March, 1990. Paul. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Paul W. Oman, Ph.D., C.S. Dept., Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83843 -- -- em: oman@cs.uidaho.edu ph: 208-885-6589 fx: 208-885-6645 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------