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towards a metrics suite for object oriented design

by shyam r chidamber

Computers & Internet

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The book deals with the process of software development and the role of information technology focusing on the special role of the improvement in the software development area. Due to the progress demands a great quantity of new and improved approaches appeared. The authors consider that object-orientation (OO) is the most popular among them. Moreover, the book focuses on the problems of measurement and metrics. It gives an insight to the ways of how managers use metrics for process improvement.

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...to older, more traditional approaches that emphasize a function-oriented view that separated data and procedures. Given the fundamentally different notions inherent in these two views, it is not surprising to find that software metrics developed with traditional methods in inind do not readily lend themselves to notions such as classes, inheritance, encapsulation and message passing. Therefore, given that current software metrics are subject to some general criticism and are easily seen as not supporting key GO concepts, it seems appropriate to develop a set, or suite of new metrics especially designed to measure unique aspects of the 00 approach. Some early work has recognized the shortcomings of existing metrics and the need for new metrics especially designed for 00. Some proposals are set out by Morris, although they are empirically suggested rather than theoretically driven [1988]. Pfleeger also suggests the need for new measures, and uses counts of objects and methods to develop...