TY  - CONF
A1  - Bajeh, A.O.
A1  - Basri, S.
A1  - Jung, L.T.
A1  - Almomani, M.A.
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84937510599&doi=10.1109%2fICIMU.2014.7066628&partnerID=40&md5=336893428a153a923d16d479ed473d5b
EP  - 194
Y1  - 2014///
PB  - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
SN  - 9781479954230
N2  - Since the proliferation of software product in the (semi)automation of business operations, most especially software product developed using the object-oriented methodology; the quality of the design of software becomes significant. The measurement of the quality attributes of software during and after development guides software developers in ensuring the production of software products that are maintainable. Several metrics have been proposed for the measurement of the inheritance hierarchy of object-oriented software designs. This paper presents an empirical validation of two inheritance-based metrics: Average Understandability (AU) and Average Modifiability (AM), for the estimation of the modifiability of object-oriented software inheritance hierarchies. Data collected from two open-source object-oriented software are used for the empirical validation of the metrics. The results of the study show that the two metrics are good indicators of the modifiability of object-oriented inheritance hierarchy from high level designs perspective. © 2014 IEEE.
N1  - cited By 1; Conference of 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia, ICIMU 2014 ; Conference Date: 18 November 2014 Through 20 November 2014; Conference Code:111721
ID  - scholars4538
SP  - 189
TI  - Empirical validation of object-oriented inheritance hierarchy modifiability metrics
KW  - Object oriented programming; Open source software; Open systems; Product design
KW  -  Empirical validation; Inheritance; Inheritance hierarchies; Measurements of; Metric; Modifiability; Object oriented; Object-oriented design; Software; Software products
KW  -  Software design
AV  - none
ER  -