Decomposition Of Multiple Inheritance DAGs For Object-oriented Software Measurement
Price
Free (open access)
Volume
17
Pages
12
Published
1997
Size
1,032 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/SQE970191
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
T.K. Shih, C.M. Chung & C.C. Wang
Abstract
Software metrics are widely used to measure software complexity and assure software quality. However, research in the field of the software complexity measurement of a class hierarchy has not yet been carefully studied. In this paper, we introduce a novel factor named unit repeated inheritance (URI) and an important method named inheritance level technique (ILT) method to realize and measure the object-oriented software complexity of a class hierarchy. The approach is based on the graph-theoretical model for measuring the hierarchical complexity in inheritance relations. The proposed metrics extraction shows that inheritance has a close relation to the object-oriented software measurement and reveals that overuse of the
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