Theoretical Analysis of Entropy Distance Metric for UML Class Diagrams  

作　　者：WUFangjun YITong 

机构地区：[1]DepartmentofComputerScience＆Engineering,SoutheastUniversity,Nanjing210096,China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Electronics》2005年第2期244-248,共5页电子学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Although the entropy distance metric for UML (Unified modeling language) class diagrams overcomes some limitations of previous metrics by reason that it considers relationships among classes, it ignores complexity of classes themselves. This paper deeply analyzes and evaluates the essence and behaviors of the metric from theoretic aspects. Furthermore, some problems are pointed out, such as the structure complexity of a class diagram cannot be computed or the result is incorrect, and the structure complexities of two class diagrams cannot be distinguished, and so on.

关 键 词：UML 软件测量 熵距离 建模语言 

分 类 号：TP311.1[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]