An approach for deriving object-oriented metrics

The object-oriented approach is gaining wider acceptance in the software engineering community as an alternative to structured design methodologies. The major disadvantage of structured methodologies is the discontinuity between analysis, design, and implementation phases. In object-oriented approach this problem has been taken care of as the same concepts have been extended to all the phases of software development. However, some of the common software engineering tools of structured methodologies, such as metrics, are poorly developed for object oriented designs. Software metrics help analysts, designers, programmers, and managers to comprehend software development processes and assess the system complexity. It will help managers in revising their estimates and plans for systems development. In this paper we propose a set of metrics for object-oriented analysis and design efforts