Abstract:
Software quality metric for PHP is scarce in
literature. This paper presents a technical and
research overview of software quality assessment
especially for software complexity to establish a
software quality observatory for PHP language since
PHP is one of the most popular languages that millions
of websites and web applications are developed every
month using PHP. Complexity is one important quality
for software source codes. In this paper, software
metric related to code complexity is investigated and a
suitable set of metric is identified for the given system.
Here, we present motivating examples, tool and
techniques that can be used to evaluate the quality of
source code. We have carried out an empirical study
and tried to find out the nature of relationship between
the metric and other well-known metric. In other
words, it has been investigated whether complexity
features may have positively or negatively on the code
maintainability effort.
