An empirical analysis of software systems for measurement of design quality level based on design patterns

In this paper, we propose a new, simple and quantitative approach to specify design level of object oriented software systems. The exploratory analysis method proposed here uses GoF (gang of four) design patterns as our assessment criteria. We formulate an empirical study and develop a method to measure software quality. We tested our proposed method on several open source projects and also validate it by making a comparison with current approach. Our approach that addresses design patterns can be an excellent alternative to current systems such as OO metric, software fault proneness, visualization and anti-pattern based approaches. Our approach also can be helpful to practitioners for software quality assurance.