A Framework for Quality Assessment of ROS Repositories

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Santos, A (Author) Other; Cunha, A (Author) Other; Macedo, N (Author) Other; Lourenco, C (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon, South Korea, October 9-14, 2016

Pages: 4491-4496

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 11 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00M-8D0

DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759661

Abstract (EN): Robots are being increasingly used in safety-critical contexts, such as transportation and health. The need for flexible behavior in these contexts, due to human interaction factors or unstructured operating environments, led to a transition from hardware-to software-based safety mechanisms in robotic systems, whose reliability and quality is imperative to guarantee. Source code static analysis is a key component in formal software verification. It consists on inspecting code, often using automated tools, to determine a set of relevant properties that are known to influence the occurrence of defects in the final product. This paper presents HAROS, a generic, plug-in-driven, framework to evaluate code quality, through static analysis, in the context of the Robot Operating System (ROS), one of the most widely used robotic middleware. This tool (equipped with plug-ins for computing metrics and conformance to coding standards) was applied to several publicly available ROS repositories, whose results are also reported in the paper, thus providing a first overview of the internal quality of the software being developed in this community.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6