UML CLASS DIAGRAM METRICS TOOL

Many of the 00 metrics have been proposed over the last decade can be applied to measure internal quality attributes of class diagrams. This paper describes a tool that automates the computation of the important metrics that are applicable to the UML class diagrams. The tool collects information by parsing the XMI format of the class diagram to produce a meta-data for the class diagram, and then uses these data to calculate the metrics. The paper describes some areas where object oriented design metrics has improved our understanding of software, and propose a classification that may help developers or managers use metrics to improve software quality.