A number of papers have investigated the relationships between design metrics and the detection of faults in object-oriented software. Several of these studies have shown that suc...
—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...
The characteristics of object-oriented software affect type and relevance of faults. In particular, the state of the objects may cause faults that cannot be easily revealed with t...
When using object-oriented frameworks it is easy to overlook certain important method calls that are required at particular places in code. In this paper, we provide a comprehensiv...
The class hierarchy is an important aspect of object-oriented software development. Design and maintenance of such a hierarchy is a difficult task that is often accomplished witho...