Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
Candidate metrics for object-oriented software within a taxonomy framework
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on achieving quality in software
Object-oriented metrics: measures of complexity
Object-oriented metrics: measures of complexity
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A new reusability metric for object-oriented software
Software Quality Control
Software Reuse Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems
SERA '05 Proceedings of the Third ACIS Int'l Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
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In object-oriented systems, assessing reusability plays a key role in reducing a cost and improving the quality of the software. Objectoriented programming helps in achieving the concept of reusability through different types of inheritance programs, which further help in developing reusable software modules. And object-oriented metrics identify the effectiveness of each reuse strategy. Software reusability has considerable effect on software quality. Software quality increases as reuse of software components increases. But software quality improvement cannot be understood unless it is measured. This paper focuses on an empirical evaluation of object-oriented metrics in C++ using three different object-oriented features. Three programs have been considered as input for the study -- the first program uses multilevel inheritance, the second program uses multiple inheritance and the third program uses hierarchical inheritance. We have found that multilevel inheritance has more impact on reusability among these three features.