Integrity quantification model for object oriented design

Abstract

Various surveys indicate that over the past several years software security has risen in priority for many software organizations. Security quantification in early stage of software development life cycle assists security experts to address security related problems well in advance. Security assessment using model is proved to be one of the established methods. Keeping in view of the same, an Integrity Quantification Model (IQM) is proposed in this paper. An effort is made by authors to correlate design integrity with complexity factors. Object oriented design metrics are used to quantify complexity factors. The developed model has been validated with realistic (small set of) data to prove the significance.