Effectiveness of traditional software metrics for object-oriented systems

Author

Tegarden, David P. ; Sheetz, Steven D. ; Monarchi, David E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Inf. Syst., Denver Univ., CO, USA

Volume

iv

fYear

1992

fDate

7-10 Jan 1992

Firstpage

359

Abstract

An acceptable measure of software quality must quantify software complexity. Traditional software metrics such as lines of code, software science and cyclomatic complexity are investigated as possible indicators of complexity of object-oriented systems. This research reports the effects of polymorphism and inheritance on the complexity of object-oriented systems are measured by the traditional metrics. The results of this research indicate that traditional metrics are applicable to the measurement of the complexity of object-oriented systems

Keywords

object-oriented programming; software metrics; software reliability; cyclomatic complexity; inheritance; lines of code; object-oriented systems; polymorphism; software complexity; software metrics; software quality; software science; Application software; Area measurement; Costs; Educational institutions; Management information systems; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2420-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1992.183365

Filename

183365