CSC 457 Lecture Favorites

Ack. I’ll just spew these out here for now... probably break them out by chapter later. Dop.

Programming. To the extreme! Here’s the home of Extreme Programming: http://extremeprogramming.org/

CMU’s SEI Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal software Process (PSP): http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/main.html

Mathworld links:

• Spearman: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpearmanRankCorrelationCoefficient.html
• Pearson (regular, old) correlation coefficient: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CorrelationCoefficient.html
• Standard deviation and variance: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StandardDeviation.html

Wiki summaries:

• Spearman’s rank correlation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_coefficient
• Correlation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
• Even a special page reminding us that correlation does not mean causation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

Go:

• Wiki summary on Rayleigh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_distribution
• Wiki summary on the Weibull distribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull_distribution
• Turbo speed with Mathworld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull_distribution
• Just for grins: http://www.weibull.com/

This is the code example we did in class: http://www.cs.ttu.edu/fase/v8n06.txt

The McCabe dude, from the cyclomatic complexity stuff, has his own company: http://www.mccabe.com/

Speaking of cyclomatic complexity, here’s the wiki-summary of some of the Ch 11 terms: Wikipedia summary of cyclomatic complexity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

I found McCabe’s original paper on Wikipedia as well: http://www.literateprogramming.com/mccabe.pdf

CyVis, is an open source tool to “visualize” cyclomatic complexity... no, I haven’t used it: http://cyvis.sourceforge.net/

This company Verifysoft has some nice overviews of our material:

• Halstead metrics: http://www.verifysoft.com/en_halstead_metrics.html
• McCabe metrics: http://www.verifysoft.com/en_mccabe_metrics
• A conglomerate that they call the “maintainability index”:

Coupling and cohesion are key: http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/coupcoh/

And some cool OO metrics from the same site: http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/codemetrics/

Measuring the complexity of OO systems: http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/metrics/

thanks... yow, bill