A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 476-493

  Chidamber, Shyam R ^a   Kemerer, Chris F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; complexity; CR categories and subject descriptors; D.2.8 software engineering ; design; General terms:; K.6.3 management of computing and information systems ; management; management F.2.3 analysis of algorithms and problem complexity ; measurement; metrics; metrics; D.2.9 software engineering ; object orientation; performance; software management; tradeoffs among complexity measures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

FEASIBILITY; METRICS SUITE; ONTOLOGY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0028446078     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.295895     Document Type: Article

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