An Analysis of Object Oriented Complexity Metrics

Authors

  • K. Maheswaran  Department of Computer Science, St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
  • A. Aloysius  Department of Computer Science, St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords:

Software Metrics, Software Complexity, Cognitive Informatics, Cognitive Complexity

Abstract

Software metrics are essential to measure the quality of software products. Number of metrics related to software complexity, quality, reusability, reliability, maintainability has been developed in the past and are still being proposed. Software metrics are tools to control the complexity of software. This paper briefly discusses cognitive and non- cognitive complexity metrics in Object Oriented (OO) design with respect to the complexity of a class, code, inheritance, interface and polymorphism.

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K. Maheswaran, A. Aloysius, " An Analysis of Object Oriented Complexity Metrics" International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp.768-775, July-August-2017.