In this paper we consider empirical evidence in support of a set of object-oriented software metrics. In particular, we look at the object oriented design metrics of Chidamber and Kemerer, and their applicability in diierent application domains. We brieey describe the metrics, and present our empirical ndings, arising from our analysis of systems taken from a number of diierent application doma...

Existing reliability prediction and security assessment of open source software systems seem to focus on analysis based primarily on the number of faults reported against the software. Since information like problem reports, software usage level, and project’s behavior in terms of time taken to fix a problem report are publicly available, it is advantageous to also consider these factors in ana...

I will start by giving a lightening history of software metrics, explaining why almost all metrics activities can be traced to a couple of very simple technical objectives about resource and quality that are then wrapped up in standard statistical methods. The good news is that globally software metrics has provided some decent benchmarking information about software projects and locally has le...

According to the needs and characteristics of software quality comprehensive assessment, the author systematically analyzes the drawback of the loss of a large amount of effective information caused by the calculation in the fuzzy synthesis evaluation algorithm as well as the defects of distortion among the intermediate data transformation in the processing of multi-level extensive evaluation a...

In this research investigate, quality of software using comprehend our architecture testing model [34], with the help of object oriented characteristic relationship, using different software metrics. The objective of ‘Design Architectural Testing Tool’ is to facilitate a design that may contribute to the comprehensiveness of the software testing tool. In this research work first we try to draw ...

Modern software development companies that have a quality assurance program use measurements and standards to improve product quality as perceived by the users of these products. However, during the entire software life cycle, except for the final customers, different types of ‘users’ also appear. This paper firstly shows the different views of software quality of these types of users. It also ...

It has been argued for many years that software engineering lacks the repeatability and well-defined monitoring characteristic of the traditional engineering disciplines. Over time, numerous authors have addressed this issue by proposing a range of software metrics — although it is generally agreed that no one measure is suffi cient to capture software quality, and a well chosen suite of metric...

The automated collection of source code metrics can help agile teams to understand the software they are producing, allowing them to adapt their daily practices towards an environment of continuous improvement. This paper describes the evolution of some object-oriented metrics in several agile projects we conducted recently in both academic and governmental environments. We analyze seven differ...

Software metrics and quality models play a pivotal role in measurement of software quality. A number of well-known quality models and software metrics are used to build quality software both in industry and in academia. However, during our research on measuring software quality using design patterns, we faced many issues related to existing software metrics and quality models. In this position ...

Two inheritance complexity metrics, one at class level CCI (Class Complexity due to Inheritance) and another at program level ACT (Average Complexity of a program due to Inheritance), have been proposed for object-oriented software systems. These proposed metrics are evaluated with Weyuker's properties and compared with other well known objectoriented inheritance metrics. It has been found that...