An Evaluation of the CK Suite of Object-Oriented Software Metrics

Abstract

Present study has been done to explore a set of metrics that can be used to build higher quality software. This needs software process improvement which requires measuring both the process and its performance. Managers working in the software development are giving more stress on process management. The focus to improve process and performance has increased the demand for software measures or metrics. Object-oriented development requires not only a different approach to design and implementation but it also requires different approach to software metrics. The approach to software metrics for object oriented programs must be different from the standard metrics set. Metrics such as line of code and cyclomatic complexity have become accepted standard for procedural programs but for object-oriented, there are many proposed object oriented metrics in the literature among which CK metrics (Chidamber and Kemerer) are the most popular and economic variable for commercial use. The result proposes a set of metrics that measures the conformance of a design to the desirable pattern.