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Mohammad Alshayeb & Wei Li
An Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics in Two Different Iterative Software Processes
IEEE Trans Software Engineering V29n11(Nov 2003)pp1043-1049
=EMPIRICAL Object-Oriented METRICS AGILE XP client-server stories vs JDK 1.[0-4] EVOLUTION PROCESSES JAVA EDITS
metrics={WMC, DIT, LCOM, NLM, CTA, CTM}.
analyses short-cycle vs long-cycle.
The metrics with multi-linear regression predict the amount of change (and effort) well in the later cycles of an XP process.
Not so useful in the JDK long-cycle evolution.
|-" prediction is impossible at the beginning of the " [XP] " process because there is very little substantive design structure in the system".
Idea: critical mass of classes needed to define metrics that predict XP effort.

Diomedis Spinellis
Global Analysis and Transformations in Preprocessed Languages
IEEE Trans Software Engineering V29n11(Nov 2003)pp1019-1030
=TOOLCHEST refactor CScout C C++ MACROS IDENTIFIERS WWW/NET
Formal description of the equivalence of identifiers used in macros -- stringization and token concatenation.

Tron Foss & Erik Stensrud & Barbara Kitchenham & Ingunn Myrtveit
A Simulation Study of the Model evaluation Criterion MMRE
IEEE Trans Software Engineering V29n11(Nov 2003)pp985-996
=SIMULATION EMPIRICAL STATISTICS MMRE HARMFUL
Provides evidence that software engineers should use traditional goodness of fit statistics rather than inventing their own measures.

to BarbierEtal03.
V29n11(Nov 2003)pp1054-1056
"On formalization of the whole-part relationship in the unified modeling Language" by Hee Beng Kuan Tan & Lun Hao & Yong Hang corrects discrepancies,
"Controversies about the Black and White Diamonds" by Frank Barbier & Brian Henderson-Sellers" responds by changing name of "antisymmetry", accepting new formula for "transitivity", and agreeing to minor correction in a proof. Regrets the absence of "scientific" review of UML specifications.