Toward Refactoring of DMARF and GIPSY Case Studies -- a Team 10 SOEN6471-S14 Project Report

TL;DR

This paper provides a detailed background and architectural analysis of the open-source systems GIPSY and DMARF, using software metrics to evaluate their quality and identify refactoring opportunities.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive architectural study of GIPSY and DMARF and applies Logiscope to assess their software quality metrics.

Findings

Identified key architectural components of GIPSY and DMARF.

Used Logiscope to evaluate software quality metrics.

Provided insights into potential refactoring areas.

Abstract

The intent of this report is to do a background study of the two given OSS case study systems namely GIPSY and DMARF. It is a wide research area in which different studies are being carried out to get the most out of it. It begins with a formal introduction of the two systems and advance with the complex architecture of both. GIPSY (General Intensional Programming System) is a multi-intensional programming system that delivers as a framework for compiling and executing programs written in Lucid Programming Languages. DMARF (Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework) is a Java based research platform that acts as a library in applications. As these systems are in their evolving phase and a lot of research is being done upon these topics, it gives us motivation to be a part of this research to get a deeper look into the architectures of both the systems. For the evaluation of quality of metrics of the two open source systems, we have used a tool namely Logiscope. It is a tool to automate the code reviews by providing information based on software metrics and graphs.