Chidamber and Kemerer's Metrics Suite: A Measurement Theory Perspective

  • Authors:
  • Martin Hitz;Behzad Montazeri

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The metrics suite for object-oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer [8] is partly evaluated by applying principles of measurement theory. Using the object coupling measure (CBO) as an example, it is shown that failing to establish a sound empirical relation system can lead to deficiencies of software metrics. Similarly, for the object-oriented cohesion measure (LCOM) it is pointed out that the issue of empirical testing the representation condition must not be ignored, even if other validation principles are carefully obeyed. As a by-product, an alternative formulation for LCOM is proposed.