DocumentCode :
3373249
Title :
An empirical study on object-oriented metrics
Author :
Tang, Mei-Huei ; Kao, Ming-Hung ; Chen, Mei-Hwa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY, USA
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
242
Lastpage :
249
Abstract :
The objective of this study is the investigation of the correlation between object-oriented design metrics and the likelihood of the occurrence of object oriented faults. Such a relationship, if identified, can be utilized to select effective testing techniques that take the characteristics of the program under test into account. Our empirical study was conducted on three industrial real-time systems that contain a number of natural faults reported for the past three years. The faults found in these three systems are classified into three types: object-oriented faults, object management faults and traditional faults. The object-oriented design metrics suite proposed by Chidamber and Kemerer (1994) is validated using these faults. Moreover, we propose a set of new metrics that can serve as an indicator of how strongly object-oriented a program is, so that the decision to adopt object oriented testing techniques can be made, to achieve more reliable testing and yet minimize redundant testing efforts
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; program testing; real-time systems; software metrics; industrial real-time systems; object management faults; object oriented faults; object oriented testing; object-oriented design metrics; program testing; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Encapsulation; Fault detection; Hip; Independent component analysis; Microwave integrated circuits; Performance evaluation; Software metrics; Testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Metrics Symposium, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth International
Conference_Location :
Boca Raton, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0403-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/METRIC.1999.809745
Filename :
809745
Link To Document :
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