Measuring Complexity of Object Oriented Programs

Abstl·act. In this paper, a metric for object oriented language is formulated and validated. On the contrruy of the other metrics used for object oriented programming (OOPs), the proposed metric calculates the complexity of a dass at method level and hence considers the intemal architecture of the classes, subclasses and member functions. The proposed met1ic is evaluated against Weyuker's proposed set o f measurement principles through examples and val idated through experimentation, case s tudy and comparative study with simi lar measures. The practical usefulness of the metJ·ic is evaluated by a practic-al framework.