An object based software tool for software measurement

Software metrics are vital tools to enhance the quality of computer software, and to help in the control of software projects. Object-oriented technology is a new promising approach for developing software systems to reduce software costs and to improve software productivity. Object-oriented metrics is a quantitative measure of the degree to which the software-system or component or process possess the given attribute. From the earliest days of the software engineering discipline there has been wide agreement of the need to measure software processes and products as a pre-condition for establishing control over development activities. Developing modules in a multi-suite environment would result in the problem of integration into a project. Software metrics are useful techniques to avoid this problem. The existing tools are not free of cost. The proposed project is to extract a general subset of these metrics for an object-oriented software development project and is to be of free of cost.