Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback
Take a look at the new version of this page: [ beta version ]. Tell us what you think.

Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design

Full text

Pdf (1.59 MB)

Source

Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications archive
Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications table of contents

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Pages: 197 - 211

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-201-55417-8

Also published in ...

Authors

Shyam R. Chidamber	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Chris F. Kemerer	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Sponsor

SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 12, Downloads (12 Months): 184, Citation Count: 63

Additional Information:

references cited by index terms collaborative colleagues

Tools and Actions:	Request Permissions Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/117954.117970 What is a DOI?

REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

	1	Russell J. Abbott, Knowledge abstraction, Communications of the ACM, v.30 n.8, p.664-671, Aug. 1987 [doi>10.1145/27651.27652]
	2	Jay Banerjee , Hong-Tai Chou , Jorge F. Garza , Won Kim , Darrell Woelk , Nat Ballou , Hyoung-Joo Kim, Data model issues for object-oriented applications, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), v.5 n.1, p.3-26, Jan. 1987 [doi>10.1145/22890.22945]
	3	G Booch, Object-oriented development, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.12 n.2, p.211-221, Feb. 1986
	4	Bunge, M. (1977). Treatise on Basic Philosophy Ontology I : The Furniture of the WorM. Boston, Riedel.
	5	Bunge, M. (1979). Treatise on Basic Philosophy Ontology H : The Worm of Systems. Boston, Riedel.
	6	Cherniavsky, V. and D. G. Lakhuty (1971). "On The Problem of Information System Evaluation," Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 4, 9-26.
	7	Cunningham, W. and K. Beck (1987). "Constructing Abstractions for Object Oriented Applications", Computer Research Laboratory, Textronix Inc. Technical Report CR-87-25, 1987.
	8	Deutsch, P. and A. Schiffman (1983). "An Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System," Conference record of the Tenth Annual ACM Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages.
	9	N. Fenton , A. Melton, Deriving structurally based software measures, Journal of Systems and Software, v.12 n.3, p.177-187, Jul. 1990 [doi>10.1016/0164-1212(90)90038-N]
	10	Harrison, W. (1988). "Software Science and Weyuker's Fifth Property", University of Portland Computer Science Deparmaent Internal Report 1988.
	11	Hecht, A. and D. Taylor (1990). "Using CASE for Object Oriented Design with C++," Computer Language, 7, November, Miller Freeman Publications, San Francisco, CA.
	12	Joseph P. Kearney , Robert L. Sedlmeyer , William B. Thompson , Michael A. Gray , Michael A. Adler, Software complexity measurement, Communications of the ACM, v.29 n.11, p.1044-1050, Nov. 1986 [doi>10.1145/7538.7540]
	13	K. Lieberherr , I. Holland , A. Riel, Object-oriented programming: an objective sense of style, Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications, p.323-334, September 25-30, 1988, San Diego, California, United States
	14	Bertrand Meyer, Object-oriented software construction (2nd ed.), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997
	15	Moreau, D. R. and W. D. Dominick (1989). "Objexzt Oriented Graphical Information Systems: Research Plan and Evaluation Metrics," Journal of Systems and Software, 10, 23-28.
	16	Morris, K., (1988). Metrics for Object Oriented Software Development, unpublished Masters Thesis, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
	17	T. W. Page, Jr. , S. Berson , W. Cheng , R. R. Muntz, An object-oriented modelling enviornment, Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications, p.287-296, October 02-06, 1989, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
	18	Parnas, D. L., et al. (1986). Enhancing Reusability with Information Hiding. Tutorial." Software Reusability. P. Freeman, Ed., New York, IEEE Press. 83-90.
	19	Gerald Peterson, Object-oriented computing, Vol. 1: concepts, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1988
	20	Pfleeger, S. L. (1989). "A Model of Cost and Productivity for Object Oriented Development", Contel Technology Center Technical Report.
	21	Pfleeger, S. L. and J. D. Palmer (1990). "Software Estimation for Object Oriented Systems," Fall International Function Point Users Group Conference. San Antonio, Texas, October 1-4, 181-196.
	22	R S Pressman, Software engineering: a practitioner's approach (2nd ed.), McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1986
	23	Roberts, F. (1979). Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. Addison Wellesley Publishing Company.
	24	Seidewitz, E. and M. Stark (1986). "Towards a General Object Oriented Software Development Methodology," First International Conference on the ADA Programming Language Applications for the NASA Space Station. D.4.6.1-D4.6.14.
	25	Vessey, I. and R. Weber (1984). "Research on Structured Programming: An Empiricist's Evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-10 (4), 394-407.
	26	Yair Wand , Ron Weber, An Ontological Model of an Information System, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.16 n.11, p.1282-1292, November 1990 [doi>10.1109/32.60316]
	27	Wand, Y. (1987). A Proposal for a Formal Model of Objects. Research Directions in Object Oriented Programming. Ed., Cambridge, MA, M.I.T. Press. 537-559.
	28	E. J. Weyuker, Evaluating Software Complexity Measures, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.14 n.9, p.1357-1365, September 1988 [doi>10.1109/32.6178]
	29	Wybolt, N. (1990). "Experiences with C++ and Object Oriented Software Development," USEN1X Association C+ + Conference Proceedings. San Francisco, CA.
	30	Horst Zuse, Software complexity: measures and methods, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Hawthorne, NJ, 1991
	31	Zuse, H. and P. Bollman (1987). "Using Measurement Theory to Describe the Properties and Scales of Static Software Complexity Metrics", I.B.M. Research Center Technical Report RC 13504, August.

CITED BY 63

	Don Batory , Clay Johnson , Bob MacDonald , Dale von Heeder, Achieving extensibility through product-lines and domain-specific languages: a case study, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), v.11 n.2, p.191-214, April 2002
	Miguel A. Serrano , Doris L. Carver , Carlos Montes de Oca, Reengineering legacy systems for distributed environments, Journal of Systems and Software, v.64 n.1, p.37-55, 15 October 2002
	Lionel C. Briand , Jürgen Wüst, Modeling Development Effort in Object-Oriented Systems Using Design Properties, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.27 n.11, p.963-986, November 2001
	Timothy D. Korson , Vijay K. Vaishnavi, Managing emerging software technologies: a technology transfer framework, Communications of the ACM, v.35 n.9, p.101-111, Sept. 1992
	Sandeep Purao , Vijay Vaishnavi, Product metrics for object-oriented systems, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.35 n.2, p.191-221, June 2003
	Kalhed El Emam , Saïda Benlarbi , Nishith Goel , Shesh N. Rai, The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.27 n.7, p.630-650, July 2001
	Khaled El-Emam, Object-oriented metrics: A review of theory and practice, Advances in software engineering, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 2002
	M. Ajmal Chaumun , Rudolf K. Keller , François Lustman, Design properties and evolvability of object-oriented systems, Advances in software engineering, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 2002
	Lionel C. Briand , Jürgen Wüst , Stefan V. Ikonomovski , Hakim Lounis, Investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs: an industrial case study, Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering, p.345-354, May 16-22, 1999, Los Angeles, California, United States
	David H. Lorenz, Tiling design patterns—a case study using the interpreter pattern, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.32 n.10, p.206-217, Oct. 1997
	Webb Stacy , Jean MacMillan, Cognitive bias in software engineering, Communications of the ACM, v.38 n.6, p.57-63, June 1995
	S. R. Chidamber , C. F. Kemerer, A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.20 n.6, p.476-493, June 1994
	Robert Biddle , James Noble , Ewan Tempero, Teaching the evaluation of object-oriented designs, Proceedings of the fifth Australasian conference on Computing education, p.213-220, February 01, 2003, Adelaide, Australia
	Rajendra K. Bandi , Vijay K. Vaishnavi , Daniel E. Turk, Predicting Maintenance Performance Using Object-Oriented Design Complexity Metrics, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.29 n.1, p.77-87, January 2003
	S. Kanmani , V. Rhymend Uthariaraj , V. Sankaranarayanan , P. Thambidurai, Investigation into the exploitation of Object-Oriented features, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.29 n.2, March 2004
	Mohamed E. Fayad , Wei-Tek Tsai , Milton L. Fulghum, Transition to object-oriented software development, Communications of the ACM, v.39 n.2, p.108-121, Feb. 1996
	Frederick T. Sheldon , Kshamta Jerath , Hong Chung, Metrics for maintainability of class inheritance hierarchies, Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, v.14 n.3, p.147-160, May 2002
	M. Ajmal Chaumun , Hind Kabaili , Rudolf K. Keller , François Lustman, A change impact model for changeability assessment in object-oriented software systems, Science of Computer Programming, v.45 n.2-3, p.155-174, November 2002
	Cara Stein , Letha Etzkorn , Dawn Utley, Computing software metrics from design documents, Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference, April 02-03, 2004, Huntsville, Alabama
	Chris F. Kemerer , Benjamin S. Porter, Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.18 n.11, p.1011-1024, November 1992
	Rachel Harrison , Steve J. Counsell , Reuben V. Nithi, An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.24 n.6, p.491-496, June 1998
	Heung Seok Chae , Yong Rae Kwon , Doo Hwan Bae, Improving Cohesion Metrics for Classes by Considering Dependent Instance Variables, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.30 n.11, p.826-832, November 2004
	Neville I. Churcher , Martin J. Shepperd, Comments on 'A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.21 n.3, p.263-265, March 1995
	Lionel C. Briand , John W. Daly , Jürgen K. Wüst, A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.25 n.1, p.91-121, January 1999
	Martin Hitz , Behzad Montazeri, Chidamber and Kemerer's Metrics Suite: A Measurement Theory Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.22 n.4, p.267-271, April 1996
	Ramanath Subramanyam , M. S. Krishnan, Empirical Analysis of CK Metrics for Object-Oriented Design Complexity: Implications for Software Defects, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.29 n.4, p.297-310, April 2003
	Aine Mitchell , James F. Power, Using object-level run-time metrics to study coupling between objects, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing, March 13-17, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico
	Hamish Graham , Hong Yul Yang , Rebecca Berrigan, A solar system metaphor for 3D visualisation of object oriented software metrics, Proceedings of the 2004 Australasian symposium on Information Visualisation, p.53-59, February 01, 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand
	Áine Mitchell , James F. Power, A study of the influence of coverage on the relationship between static and dynamic coupling metrics, Science of Computer Programming, v.59 n.1-2, p.4-25, January 2006
	Steve Counsell , Stephen Swift , Jason Crampton, The interpretation and utility of three cohesion metrics for object-oriented design, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), v.15 n.2, p.123-149, April 2006
	Subhajit Datta , Robert van Engelen, Effects of changing requirements: a tracking mechanism for the analysis workflow, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing, April 23-27, 2006, Dijon, France
	Robert C. Sharble , Samuel S. Cohen, The object-oriented brewery: a comparison of two object-oriented development methods, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.18 n.2, p.60-73, April 1993
	Konstantinos Stroggylos , Diomidis Spinellis, Refactoring--Does It Improve Software Quality?, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Quality, p.10, May 20-26, 2007
	Chris Andreae , James Noble , Shane Markstrum , Todd Millstein, A framework for implementing pluggable type systems, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.41 n.10, October 2006
	Yin Liu , Ana Milanova, Static analysis for dynamic coupling measures, Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, October 16-19, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	James Kenneth Blundell , Mary Lou Hines , Jerrold Stach, The measurement of software design quality, Annals of Software Engineering, 4, p.235-255, 1997
	Timothy K. Shih , Shi-Kuo Chang , Jeffrey Tsai , Jianhua Ma , Runhe Huang, Supporting Well-Engineered Web Documentation Development – a Multimedia Software Engineering Approach toward Virtual University Courseware Designs, Annals of Software Engineering, v.12 n.1, p.139-165, December 2001
	Lionel C. Briand , John W. Daly , Jürgen Wüst, A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-OrientedSystems, Empirical Software Engineering, v.3 n.1, p.65-117, 1998
	Lionel C. Briand , Jürgen Wüst , Hakim Lounis, Replicated Case Studies for Investigating Quality Factorsin Object-Oriented Designs, Empirical Software Engineering, v.6 n.1, p.11-58, March 2001
	R. Harrison , S. J. Counsell , R. V. Nithi, An Investigation into the Applicability and Validity ofObject-Oriented Design Metrics, Empirical Software Engineering, v.3 n.3, p.255-273, September 1998
	Subhas Chandra Misra, Modeling Design/Coding Factors That Drive Maintainability of Software Systems, Software Quality Control, v.13 n.3, p.297-320, September 2005
	Giancarlo Succi , Witold Pedrycz , Snezana Djokic , Paolo Zuliani , Barbara Russo, An Empirical Exploration of the Distributions of the Chidamber and Kemerer Object-Oriented Metrics Suite, Empirical Software Engineering, v.10 n.1, p.81-104, January 2005
	B. Henderson-Sellers, The mathematical validity of software metrics, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.21 n.5, p.89-94, Sept. 1996
	Neville I. Churcher , Martin J. Shepperd, Towards a conceptual framework for object oriented software metrics, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.20 n.2, p.69-75, April 1995
	Bruno Stiglic , Marjan Heričko , Ivan Rozman, How to evaluate object-oriented software development?, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.30 n.5, p.3-10, May 1995
	Hayden Melton , Ewan Tempero, An empirical study of cycles among classes in Java, Empirical Software Engineering, v.12 n.4, p.389-415, August 2007
	Tobias Mayer , Tracy Hall, A Critical Analysis of Current OO Design Metrics, Software Quality Control, v.8 n.2, p.97-110, 1999
	Sami Mäkelä , Ville Leppänen, A software metric for coherence of class roles in Java programs, Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java, September 05-07, 2007, Lisboa, Portugal
	Sami Mäkelä , Ville Leppänen, External views on class cohesion, Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Computer systems and technologies, June 14-15, 2007, Bulgaria
	Gui Gui , Paul D. Scott, Ranking reusability of software components using coupling metrics, Journal of Systems and Software, v.80 n.9, p.1450-1459, September, 2007
	Nashat Mansour , Hani Salem, Ripple effect in object oriented programs, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, v.6 n.5,6 Supplement 1, p.23-32, April 2006
	Hyunsook Do , Siavash Mirarab , Ladan Tahvildari , Gregg Rothermel, An empirical study of the effect of time constraints on the cost-benefits of regression testing, Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering, November 09-14, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia
	Gyun Woo , Heung Seok Chae , Jian Feng Cui , Jeong-Hoon Ji, Revising cohesion measures by considering the impact of write interactions between class members, Information and Software Technology, v.51 n.2, p.405-417, February, 2009
	Paramvir Singh , Hardeep Singh, DynaMetrics: a runtime metric-based analysis tool for object-oriented software systems, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.33 n.6, November 2008
	R. A. Khan , K. Mustafa, Metric based testability model for object oriented design (MTMOOD), ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.34 n.2, March 2009
	Denys Poshyvanyk , Andrian Marcus , Rudolf Ferenc , Tibor Gyimóthy, Using information retrieval based coupling measures for impact analysis, Empirical Software Engineering, v.14 n.1, p.5-32, February 2009
	Sami Mäkelä , Ville Leppänen, Client-based cohesion metrics for Java programs, Science of Computer Programming, v.74 n.5-6, p.355-378, March, 2009
	Stéphane Vaucher , Houari Sahraoui, Do software libraries evolve differently than applications?: an empirical investigation, Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Library-Centric Software Design, p.88-96, October 21-21, 2007, Montreal, Canada
	Ali Kamandi , Jafar Habibi, A Comparison of Metric-Based and Empirical Approaches for Cognitive Analysis of Modeling Languages, Fundamenta Informaticae, v.90 n.3, p.337-352, August 2009
	Yogesh Singh , Arvinder Kaur , Ruchika Malhotra, Application of support vector machine to predict fault prone classes, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.34 n.1, January 2009
	Jehad Al Dallal, Theoretical validation of object-oriented lack-of-cohesion metrics, Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems, p.72-77, February 21-23, 2009, Cambridge, UK
	Yogesh Singh , Arvinder Kaur , Ruchika Malhotra, Comparative analysis of regression and machine learning methods for predicting fault proneness models, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, v.35 n.2/3/4, p.183-193, June 2009
	Varun Gupta , Jitender Kumar Chhabra, Package coupling measurement in object-oriented software, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, v.24 n.2, p.273-283, March 2009