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Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design
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While software metrics are a generally desirable feature in the software management functions of project planning and project evaluation, they are of especial importance with a new technology such as the object-oriented approach. This is due to the significant need to train software engineers in generally accepted object-oriented principles. This paper presents theoretical work that builds a suite of metrics for object-oriented design. In particular, these metrics are based upon measurement theory and are informed by the insights of experienced object-oriented software developers. The proposed metrics are formally evaluated against a widelyaccepted list of software metric evaluation criteria.
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- Chidamber, S. R., & Kemerer, C. F.
- Venue
- Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1991-11
- Pages
- 197-211
- OpenAlex
- W2047345132
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- 833
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 14.22
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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