Evaluating Software Complexity Measures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A philosophy for software measurement
Journal of Systems and Software - An Oregon workshop on software metrics
A mathematical perspective for software measures research
Software Engineering Journal
Candidate metrics for object-oriented software within a taxonomy framework
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on achieving quality in software
Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software metrics, information and entropy
Practicing software engineering in the 21st century
Applicability of Weyuker's Property 9 to Object Oriented Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Measuring Complexity of Object Oriented Programs
ICCSA '08 Proceedings of the international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Part II
Weyuker's Properties, Language Independency and Object Oriented Metrics
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
Measuring design complexity of semantic web ontologies
Journal of Systems and Software
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In the metric suite for object-oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer, it is observed that Weyuker's Property 9 is not satisfied by any of the structural inheritance complexity metrics. The same is also observed for candidate structural inheritance complexity metrics proposed by Brito and Carapuca. In this correspondence, we formally show that particular classes of inheritance metrics (that include the above proposals) that are defined on a directed graph abstraction of the inheritance structure and that are contrived on the assumptions and definitions given by Chidamber and Kemerer, can never satisfy Property 9. Furthermore, it is also argued that the formalisation can be generalized to include other classes of structural metrics that are not necessarily inheritance metrics.