Managerial Use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis

—With the increasing use of object-oriented methods in new software development there is a growing need to both document and improve current practice in object-oriented design and development. In response to this need, a number of researchers have developed various metrics for object-oriented systems as proposed aids to the management of these systems. In this research an analysis of a set of metrics proposed by Chidamber and Kemerer [10] is performed in order to assess their

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: TSE
• Authors: Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, Chris F. Kemerer
• Keywords: Object-oriented, Object-oriented Design, Object-oriented Methods, TSE 1998