Combination of Ahp and Promethee for Measuring Quality of Object Oriented Software Design

Measuring quality of object oriented (OO) software is challenging mainly because we are facing a number of more or less dependent parameters that characterize the properties of good OO design. This paper proposes a combination of AHP and PROMETHEE for measuring object oriented software design. We have compared AHP and PROMETHEE performance for such purpose in the ISAHP 2011. The result suggested a combination of both methods for better accuracy and more robust measurement. The proposed method combines the AHP’s pairwise comparison for defining weights of criteria and employing the PROMETHEE decision aid for selecting ranks of OO software quality. This method has been applied for defining ranks over a number of object oriented software. The result shows that the integration of AHP and PROMETHEE deliver more accurate and robust measurement compared to the result of each method individually.