An Investigation into the Applicability and Validity ofObject-Oriented Design Metrics

Abstract

In this paper we consider empirical evidence in support of a set of object-oriented software metrics. In particular, we look at the object oriented design metrics of Chidamber and Kemerer, and their applicability in different application domains. We briefly describe the metrics, and present our empirical findings, arising from our analysis of systems taken from a number of different application domains. Our investigations have led us to conclude that a subset of the metrics can be of great value to software developers, maintainers and project managers.