Visual Indicator Component Software to Show Component Design Quality and Characteristic

Abstract

Good design is one of the prerequisites of high quality product. To measure the quality of software design, software metrics are used. Unfortunately in software development practice, there are a lot of software developers who are not concerned with the component's quality and characteristic. Software metrics does not interest them, because to understand the measurement of the metrics, a deep understanding about degree, dimension, and capacity of some attribute of the software product is needed. This event triggers them to build software's whose quality is below the standard. What is more dangerous is that these developers are not aware of quality and do not care with their work product. Of course these occurrences is concerning and a solution needed to be found. Through this paper the researcher is trying to formulate an indicator of component software that shows component design quality and characteristic visually. This indicator can help software developers to make design decision and refactoring decision, detect the design problem more quickly, able to decide which area to apply refactoring, and enable us to do early or final detection of design defects.