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Weyuker’s Properties, Language Independency and Object Oriented Metrics

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009 (ICCSA 2009)

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Weyuker proposed the nine properties to evaluate software complexity measures at a time when procedural languages were dominant; however, several researchers have used these properties to evaluate object oriented metrics although the object-oriented (OO) features are entirely different in nature. In this paper, we evaluate each of Weyuker’s properties for its effective evaluation and relevance for OO metrics. In addition, we evaluate eleven OO metrics against language independency and additive property. A set of additional properties for object oriented metrics are also summarized in this paper.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Sanjay Misra

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. School of Business Systems, Clayton, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  3. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  5. School of Computing, Computer Communication Laboratory, SoongSil University, 1-1 Sang-do 5 Dong, Dong-jak Ku, 156-743, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

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Misra, S. (2009). Weyuker’s Properties, Language Independency and Object Oriented Metrics. In: Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009. ICCSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02457-3_6

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