Adaptive Strategies Metric Suite

Self-Adaptive Systems (SAS) are able to cope with the changes occurring dynamically in their execution environment in an autonomous and automated manner. They use adaptive strategies to address such changes with the main objective to ensure the proper functionality of a SAS and its performance. Hence, adaptive strategies play a key role in SAS. To ensure their use and re-use in various systems in different application domains, there is a need for common mechanisms that enable their analysis, evaluation, and comparison. In this direction, our Adaptive Strategies Metric Suite (ASMS) defines a set of software metrics for the measurement of various static and dynamic properties of adaptive strategies in SAS. The metrics concerning the static properties have been implemented in a plugin for the Understand tool.