Application of metrics to object-oriented designs

Author

Alkadi, G. ; Carver, Doris L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

21-28 Mar 1998

Firstpage

159

Abstract

The benefits of object-oriented software development are now widely recognized. However, methodologies that are used for the object-oriented software development process are still in their infancy. There is a lack of methods available to assess the quality of the various components that are derived during the development process. In this paper, we describe a method to assess the quality of object-oriented designs. We utilize a basic set of object-oriented metrics that is proposed by Shyam Chidamber et al. (1991 and 19994). We perform experimental tests on a set of object-oriented designs using the NOC metric. Also, we refer to our ongoing work to provide automated assistance to help restructure the design based on the metric findings

Keywords

object-oriented programming; software metrics; NOC metric; automated assistance; experimental tests; object-oriented designs; object-oriented metrics; software development; Application software; Computer science; Encapsulation; Network-on-a-chip; Performance evaluation; Programming; Software design; Software maintenance; Software systems; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4311-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1998.682165

Filename

682165