Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2420-5
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1992.183365
