Measuring abstractness for reverse engineering in a re-engineering tool

Although metrics have been used in the whole process of software engineering with the ostensible purpose of improving the quality of software, little thought appears to have been given to the use of metrics for reverse engineering. Not surprisingly, there are remarkably few metrics tools available for this purpose. The aim of this study was to investigate the provision of metrics suitable for measuring aspects of software for the process of reverse engineering. It should be noted, however, that the use of these metrics will help not only in reverse engineering for software maintenance but also in re-engineering in software evolution