Title :
Inheritance-based object-oriented software metrics
Author :
Chung, Chi-Ming ; Lee, Ming-Chi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tamkang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
There is no software metrics based on object-oriented programming languages (OOPLs) developed to help object-oriented software development. A graph-theoretical complexity metric to measure object-oriented software complexity is described. It shows that inheritance has a close relation with the object-oriented software complexity, and reveals that misuse of repeated (multiple) inheritance will increase software complexity and be prone to implicit software errors. An algorithm to support this software metric is presented. Its time complexity is O(n3)
Keywords :
computational complexity; graph theory; inheritance; object-oriented methods; software metrics; OOPLs; complexity metric; graph-theoretical; inheritance; object-oriented; software complexity; software errors; software metrics; time complexity; Computer science; Costs; Object oriented programming; Software algorithms; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software quality; Software reusability; Software systems; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '92. ''Technology Enabling Tomorrow : Computers, Communications and Automation towards the 21st Century.' 1992 IEEE Region 10 International Conference.
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, Vic.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0849-2
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1992.271895
