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In this paper we present a new object-oriented cohesion metric at the runtime boundary, based on number of runtime variable accesses. Only a small amount of previous work so far has been done with runtime boundary metrics [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]. This area has considerable potential: it promises more accurate quality measurements that have been available before, since quality is measured on the actual running code. We first propose the metric, then we compute the metric on an open source software package and validate it by comparing it to static cohesion metrics and expert cohesion data. Our results indicate that the metric does measure cohesion, and thus is worthy of future studies to determine its full utility.

In this paper we present a new object-oriented complexity metric at the runtime boundary, based on decision points in code. We first propose, compute and validate the metric on an open source software package, compare it with expert data and then use it to compute the runtime complexity of the software that is running three Whitebox robots using the JADE framework. We compare the results and derive conclusions.

In this paper several papers that have been written on mobile agents and robots are surveyed with a view toward determining the state of the art of software mobile agents running on robotic platforms.