Early detection of problems within a code base can save much effort and associated cost as time progresses. One method of performing routine assessment of code with a view to pre-...
A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating whic...
The metrics formulated to date for characterizing the modularization quality of object-oriented software have considered module and class to be synonymous concepts. But, a typical ...
Santonu Sarkar, Avinash C. Kak, Girish Maskeri Ram...
—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 an...
Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, Chris F. Kemer...
Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...