The Benefits of Modularity - An Empirical Study of the Impacts of OSGi on Software Quality
In this talk, I will show our initial findings and the methodology for answering the long-standing question if adhering to the best practices of modilarity in OSGi has a proveably positive impact on the quality and sustainability of software development. We discuss several software quality metrics that we identified as good indicators for this research and how OSGi can have an impact on them. We then present our initial findings on the impact of OSGi on real-world software projects that we determined by a broad empirical study of code available from open source projects.