Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design

While software metrics are a generally desirable feature in the software management functions of project planning and project evaluation, they are of especial importance with a new technology such as the object-oriented approach. This is due to the significant need to train software engineers in generally accepted object-oriented principles. This paper presents theoretical work that builds a suite of metrics for object-oriented design. In particular, these metrics are based upon measurement theory and are informed by the insights of experienced object-oriented software developers. The proposed metrics are formally evaluated against a widelyaccepted list of software metric evaluation criteria.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications

• Publication date

  2017-08-24

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/117954.117970
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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