Using software metrics to allocate testing resources
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Practical View of Software Measurement and Implementation Experiences Within Motorola
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Object-oriented metrics that predict maintainability
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on object-oriented software
Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
Object-oriented software metrics: a practical guide
A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Managerial Use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Another metric suite for object-oriented programming
Journal of Systems and Software
Defining and Validating Measures for Object-Based High-Level Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Design Measurement: Some Lessons Learned
IEEE Software
Predicting Source-Code Complexity at the Design Stage
IEEE Software
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Empirical Study on Object-Oriented Metrics
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Using UML collaboration diagrams for static checking and test generation
UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
Generating tests from UML specifications
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
Architecture-Based Software Reliability Analysis: Overview and Limitations
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
A Model-Driven Measurement Approach
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
On the application of software metrics to UML models
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Models in software engineering
Exploratory study of a UML metric for fault prediction
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Existing model metrics and relations to model quality
WOSQ'09 Proceedings of the Seventh ICSE conference on Software quality
Model-driven generative development of measurement software
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
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Design metrics are useful means for improving the quality of software. A number of object-oriented metrics have been suggested as being helpful for resource allocation in software development. These metrics are particularly useful for identifying fault-prone classes and for predicting required maintenance efforts, productivity, and rework efforts. To obtain the design metrics of the software under development, most existing approaches measure the metrics by parsing the source code of the software. Such approaches can only be performed in a late phase of software development, thus limiting the usefulness of the design metrics in resource allocation. In this paper, we present a methodology that compiles UML specifications to obtain design information and to compute the design metrics at an early stage of software development. The current version of our tool uses diagrams produced by the Rational Rose tool and computes OO metrics that have been suggested as being good indicators for identifying faults related to Object-Oriented features. Our technique advances the state of the metrics measuring process; thus it is expected to strongly promote the use of design metrics and significantly increase their impact on improving software quality.