TOOL BASED ESTIMATION OF OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE METRICS

Abstract

In practice, it is very important to determine the size of a proposed software system yet to be built based on its requirements, i.e., early in the software development life cycle. Size of software system determines the effort, cost, time and quality. There are various techniques for measuring size of traditional software like Lines of codes, function point etc. These methods are not suitable for world of Object Oriented System. As Lines of codes is not considered to be effective as it is very vague and depends on programming languages. Also techniques like function point count for traditional software are not directly applicable to Object Oriented application due to change in technical environment and it is not suitable to capture specific object-oriented features, such as classes, inheritance, encapsulation, and message passing. Here the architecture of tool is proposed to calculate various Object Oriented software metrics and a unifying framework is presented that captures all the ...