Software Design Metrics for Object-Oriented Software.

Software Design Metrics for Object-Oriented Software

The importance of software measurement is increasing leading to development of new measurement techniques. As the development of object-oriented software is rising, more and more metrics are being defined for object-oriented languages. Many metrics have been proposed related to various object-oriented constructs like class, coupling, cohesion, inheritance, information hiding and polymorphism. T...

Object-Oriented Software Design Metrics

Metrics for Object Oriented Design Software Systems: A Survey

In this paper, we present obtainable and new Software metrics useful in the different phase of the Object-Oriented Software Development Life Cycle. Metrics are used by the software industry to itemize the development, operation and maintenance of software. The practice of applying software metrics to a software process and to a software product is a complex task that requires study and restrain...

Simplified Coupling Metrics for Object-Oriented Software

Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analysis, ripple effects of changes, changeability, etc. Many coupling measures for object-oriented (OO) software have been proposed, each of them capturing specific dimensions of coupling. In this paper, we describe and ev...

Identifying thresholds for object-oriented software metrics

Despite the importance of software metrics and the large number of proposed metrics, they have not been widely applied in industry yet. One reason might be that, for most metrics, the range of expected values, i.e., reference values are not known. This paper presents results of a study on the structure of a large collection of open-source programs developed in Java, of varying sizes and from di...