Measuring complexity of domain standard specifications using XML schema entropy

Feuerlicht, G; Kovar, V; Hartman, D; Beranek, M; Bory, P

Measuring complexity of domain standard specifications using XML schema entropy

Feuerlicht, G Kovar, V Hartman, D Beranek, M Bory, P

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Citation:: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015, 1326 pp. 124 - 131
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Feuerlicht, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kovar, V	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hartman, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Beranek, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Bory, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015, 1326 pp. 124 - 131	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1613-0073	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/118640
dc.description.abstract	XML schemas are used extensively in e-commerce standardization initiatives. Such XML-based standards define the structure and the semantics of messages that are used to implement business transactions in a particular industry domain (e.g. travel). The design of the document structures that form the message payloads is of key importance as once the specification is published it is difficult to re-design the documents without impacting on existing applications. Furthermore, such domain standards need to be maintained and evolved over long time periods, typically decades, without unduly increasing the complexity of the specification. The concept of software entropy has been used in the literature to estimate complexity and to express decline in quality, maintainability and understandability of software though its lifetime. In this paper we propose a Message Software Entropy (MSE) metric that estimates the complexity of XML message structures and we use this metric to study the complexity of a subset of the Open Travel Alliance Specification as it evolves over time.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	CEUR Workshop Proceedings	en_US
dc.title	Measuring complexity of domain standard specifications using XML schema entropy	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	1326	en_US
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
utslib.for	080309 Software Engineering	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	1326	en_US

Abstract:

XML schemas are used extensively in e-commerce standardization initiatives. Such XML-based standards define the structure and the semantics of messages that are used to implement business transactions in a particular industry domain (e.g. travel). The design of the document structures that form the message payloads is of key importance as once the specification is published it is difficult to re-design the documents without impacting on existing applications. Furthermore, such domain standards need to be maintained and evolved over long time periods, typically decades, without unduly increasing the complexity of the specification. The concept of software entropy has been used in the literature to estimate complexity and to express decline in quality, maintainability and understandability of software though its lifetime. In this paper we propose a Message Software Entropy (MSE) metric that estimates the complexity of XML message structures and we use this metric to study the complexity of a subset of the Open Travel Alliance Specification as it evolves over time.

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