Title :
Foundations of object-oriented software measures
Author_Institution :
Fachbereich Inf., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The foundations of the properties of object-oriented software measures are presented. The criteria for these measures are characterized with several binary operations between objects, classes, methods, etc. Binary operations can be used as a tool to give numbers an interpretation above the ordinal scale level. The result of our investigation is that software measures for object-oriented programs mostly do not assume an extensive structure. In order to obtain qualitative criteria for object-oriented measures, the Dempster-Shafer belief function, the Kolmogoroff axioms and the DeFinetti axioms are introduced. These axioms give qualitative criteria for the use of object-oriented software measures between the weak order and the extensive structure
Keywords :
belief maintenance; inference mechanisms; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; programming theory; software metrics; uncertainty handling; DeFinetti axioms; Dempster-Shafer belief function; Kolmogoroff axioms; binary operations; classes; concatenation operations; dominance axiom; extensive structure; methods; numbers; object-oriented software measures; qualitative criteria; software measurement theory; weak order; Additives; Application software; Area measurement; Costs; Lab-on-a-chip; Object oriented programming; Software design; Software measurement; Software quality; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Software Metrics Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7365-6
DOI :
10.1109/METRIC.1996.492445
