• DocumentCode
    1446683
  • Title

    The role of object-oriented metrics

  • Author

    Meyer, Bertrand

  • Author_Institution
    EiffelSoft, Goleta, CA
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    11/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    127
  • Abstract
    Perhaps the most common concern of project managers who use or who are about to use object technology is for more measurement tools. There is, in fact, an extensive literature on software metrics, including much that pertains to object-oriented development, but surprisingly little of it is of direct use to actual projects. The author presents a classification of software metrics and five basic rules for their application
  • Keywords
    object-oriented programming; software metrics; classification; measurement tools; object technology; object-oriented metrics; project managers; software metrics; Costs; Documentation; Guidelines; Humans; Libraries; Mirrors; Project management; Size measurement; Software measurement; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/2.730743
  • Filename
    730743