Normalized-TurboMQ

Implementation of the Normalized TurboMQ metric as explained in the following publication (Section 5.5):

T. Lutellier, D. Chollak, J. Garcia, L. Tan, D. Rayside, N. Medvidovic, R. Kroeger, "Measuring the Impact of Code Dependencies on Software Architecture Recovery Techniques", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 44(2), 159-181 (2018)

Usage

A runnable jar file is available together with the source files. It should be executed as follows:

java -jar nturbomq.jar <dependency file> <clustering file>

• The names of the input files are provided as command line arguments.
• The first file must enlist dependencies among the items being clustered and the second one must contain the resulting clustering.
• The input files must conform to the RSF format.
• Full path of the files must be provided.
• The set of items included in the clustering file must be consistent with those taking place in the dependency file.