Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4311-5
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.1998.682165
