Citation
Mann, C.J.H. (2007), "Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice: Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 5/6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2007.06736eae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice: Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems
Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice: Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems
Michele Lanza and Radu MarinescuSpringerHeidelberg, Germany2006I-XIV, 206 pp., 80 illustrations (33 in colour)ISBN 3-540-24429-8US $59.95 (Hardcover)
Keywords Cybernetics, Metrics, Software
The subtitle of this book clearly sets out the aims of the authors who want to take out the mystery, they say, from design metrics used to assess object-oriented software systems. Design metrics has been applied to these systems for some time in an effort to assess the size, quality and complexity of the system.
The authors show in some detail, how to identify collaboration and classification disharmony patterns in code and how to visualise their results. The CodeCrawler visualization tool is used and they indicate that this is now freely available. This process allows the practitioner to decide about possible remedies and the authors discuss how this can be achieved.
The publisher Springer quote Richard C. Gronback of the Borland Software Corporation who believes that this:
... well written book is an important piece of work that takes the seemingly forgotten art of object-oriented metrics to the next level in terms of relevance and usefulness.