On the applicability of Weyuker Property 9 to object-oriented structural inheritance complexity metrics

Gursaran,; Roy, Gaétan

doi:10.1109/32.917526

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“…Initially, the argument was supported by Gurusaran and Roy [5], who presented an argument that Property 9 cannot be satisfied by any inheritance metric. They continued with the definitions and assumptions used by Chidamber and Kemerer.…”

Section: Point Of View Of Inheritancementioning

confidence: 80%

“…relation [1]. Chidamber and Kemerer name the property Interaction increases complexity, which is misleading, as noted by Gurusaran and Roy [5], since the original statement is not universal. However, Gurusaran and Roy's naming of the property, viz.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gurusaran and Roy [5] proposed a formalization of inheritance based on a directed graph abstraction and concluded that Property 9 is not satisfied by any inheritance metrics. However, two counterexamples to their formalization were presented by Zhang and Xie [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applicability of Weyuker's Property 9 to object oriented metrics

Sharma

Joshi

2006

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Abstract-Weyuker's Property 9 has received a mixed response regarding its applicability to object oriented software metrics. Contrary to past beliefs, the relevance of this property to object oriented systems is brought out. In support of the new argument, counterexamples to earlier claims are formulated and two new metrics highlighting a notion of complexity that is capturable through Property 9 are also presented.

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Section: Point Of View Of Inheritancementioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Applicability of Weyuker's Property 9 to object oriented metrics

Sharma

Joshi

2006

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Many metrics show dimensional inconsistencies, or their results are derived from correlative or regression analysis. As reported in Gursaran and Gurdev (2001), experienced object-oriented designers found memory management and run-time errors are more problematic and difficult to deal with.…”

Section: Critical View Of Oo Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Code Complexity in Projects Designed with Aspect/J

Dospisil

2003

InSITE Conference

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The modularized code encapsulating object interactions is characterized by class hierarchies. In the implementation of mobile agents, we have observed that the changes in agent interaction protocols lead to uncontrolled subclassing and consequently to disorder. This phenomenon is known as entropy. The additional subclassing, modification to protocols, restructuring of the class hierarchies, changes to visibility of attributes, and method overloading result in increased co mplexity of the code. This problem in agent design has been tackled by Kendall (Kendall, 1999) who proposed development using Aspect/J and sep aration of concerns. Since there has been no proof of reduced complexity, we have proposed metrics for software complexity estimation, and ranking of compositional elements developed with Aspect/J. The metrics have been tested on Java code for mobile agents.

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“…The contribution of this paper is to show that DepDegree fulfills all nine properties. Weyuker's properties have also been applied and discussed in the context of object-oriented measures (e.g., [3,6]), component-based development [15], and business-process complexity measures [2].…”

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A formal evaluation of DepDegree based on weyuker's properties

Beyer

Häring

2014

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Complexity of source code is an important characteristic that software engineers aim to quantify using static software measurement. Several measures used in practice as indicators for software complexity have theoretical flaws. In order to assess the quality of a software measure, Weyuker established a set of properties that an indicator for program-code complexity should satisfy. It is known that several well-established complexity indicators do not fulfill Weyuker's properties. We show that DepDegree, a measure for data-flow dependencies, satisfies all of Weyuker's properties.

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On the applicability of Weyuker Property 9 to object-oriented structural inheritance complexity metrics

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Applicability of Weyuker's Property 9 to object oriented metrics

Applicability of Weyuker's Property 9 to object oriented metrics

Measuring Code Complexity in Projects Designed with Aspect/J

A formal evaluation of DepDegree based on weyuker's properties

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