Inheritance metrics: what do they measure?

Authors:
G. Sri Krishna;Rushikesh K. Joshi
Affiliations:
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India;Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on MechAnisms for SPEcialization, Generalization and inHerItance
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Characteristics of inheritance metrics are compared with size and length measurement using the property based validation framework of Briand et al. About a dozen inheritance metrics are analyzed and compared with some known object oriented metrics. The analysis first performs an identification of viewpoints and projections of the chosen metrics in order to meaningfully apply the property based framework. For the purpose of this analysis, nested and internal projections are also newly suggested in this paper. The work results in associating most of the chosen inheritance metrics with either the size or the length aspect, while two metrics remain unclassified.