This section is still building.
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~csse/publications/OOMetrics.html
[Berard 93] contains an elaborate bibliography and section on OO metrics. [Booch 94] also contains some coverage.
Also: Object Oriented Software development Mark Lorenz ISBN 0-13-726928-5 Prentice Hall
Software Metrics Grady-Caswell ISBN 0-13-821844-7 Prentice Hall
Measuring Software Design Quality Card-Glass ISBN 0-13-568593-1 Prentice Hall
From: trilk@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Joern Trilk) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.databases.object Subject: Re: In search of OO Metrics Date: 20 Jun 1994 14:29:27 GMT Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
>... Here are some references:
@article{inheriting:1993,
author = {G. Michael Barnes and Bradley R. Swim},
title = {Inheriting software metrics},
journal = {JOOP},
year = {1993},
month = {Nov./Dec.},
volume = {6},
number = {7},
pages = {27-34}
}
@article{a-new-metr:1993,
author = {J.-Y. Chen and J.-F. Lu},
title = {A new metric for object-oriented design},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1993},
month = apr,
volume = {35},
number = {4},
pages = {232-240}
}
@inproceedings{towards-a-:1991,
author = {Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer},
title = {Towards a Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design},
booktitle = {OOPSLA '91 Proceeedings},
year = {1991},
pages = {197-211}
}
@inproceedings{software-m:1992,
author = {J. Chris Coppick and Thomas J. Cheatham},
title = {Software Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems},
booktitle = {CSC '92 Proceedings},
year = {1992},
pages = {317-322}
}
@inproceedings{some-metri:1991,
author = {B. Henderson-Sellers},
title = {Some metrics for object-oriented software engineering},
booktitle = {TOOLS Proceedings},
year = {1991},
pages = {131-139}
}
@article{object-ori:1993,
author = {Wei Li and Sallie Henry},
title = {Object-Oriented Metrics that Predict Maintainability},
journal = {J. Systems Software},
year = {1993},
volume = {23},
pages = {111-122}
}
@inproceedings{workshop-r:1992,
author = {Teri Roberts},
title = {Workshop Report - Metrics for Object-Oriented Software Development},
booktitle = {OOPSLA '92 (Addendum to the Proceedings)},
year = {1992},
pages = {97-100}
}
@techreport{softwareme:1991,
author = {A. Buth},
title = {Softwaremetriken f{ü}r objekt-orientierte Programmiersprachen}, institution = {Gesellschaft f{ü}r Mathematik und
Datenverarbeitung},
year = {1991},
month = jun,
number = {545},
type = {Arbeitspapiere der GMD}
}
The Software Engineering FAQ lists the following references concerning metrics for object-oriented systems:
Date: 26 Jan 1993 Originally collected by: ZUSE%DB0TUI11.BITNET@vm.gmd.de (Horst Zuse)
a. Morris Kenneth L. Metrics for Object-Oriented Software Development Environments (master's thesis). 1989, MIT. b. Rocacher, Daniel: Metrics Definitions for Smalltalk. Project ESPRIT 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1988. c. Rocacher, Daniel: Smalltalk Measure Analysis Manual. Project ESPRIT 1257, MUSE WP9A, 1989. d. Lake, Al: A Software Complexity Metric for C++. Annual Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics, March 22-24, 1992, Silver Falls, Oregon, USA. e. Bieman, J.M.: Deriving Measures of Software Reuse in Object Oriented Systems. Technical Report #CS91-112, July 1991, Colorado State Universty, Fort Collins/ Colorado, USA.
Hope this helps, Joern
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Newsgroups: comp.software-eng From: scottw@advsysres.com (Scott A. Whitmire) Subject: Re: Any good OO metrics? Organization: Advanced Systems Research Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 05:58:29 GMT
In <3baqhn$crg@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, cjdavies@aol.com (Cjdavies) writes: >Has anyone come up with metrics that work realistically for OO >development? The old lines of code, cyclomatic complexity and Halstead >metrics don't work so well with OO languages such as Smalltalk (or any >language that facilitates reuse). Also, has anyone adapted function >points to OO languages? Any ideas would be most welcome. >Thanks, >Colin Davies.
Several people have been working in metrics for oo development. For a quick synopsis, check out my article in the "Encyclopedia of Software Engineering" edited by John Marciniak and published by John Wiley & Sons. The article gives an overview of the work being done in the field, and what needs to be done. It is a couple of years old now, but there really isn't that much going on.
I did run into one book called "Object-Oriented Software Metrics" (I forget the authors), but I didn't think much of it.
Your assessment of LOC, cyclomatic complexity, and Halsted are right on the money.
As for function points and OO, I think you'll find two papers useful. The first is a chapter I wrote for the "Software Engineering Productivity Handbook" edited by Jessica Keyes and published by McGraw-Hill. It applies standard function points to OO software. I suspect you'll find standard function points wanting. I use an extension I developed a couple of years ago called 3D function points. I have an electronic (plain text) version of the paper I can send if you like.
Metrics and OO development are fairly new to each other. I am working on ways to measure such design characteristics as cohesion, coupling, complexity, similarity and the like. I haven't been too thrilled with the work that has been done so far. Much of it has serious theoretical and technical flaws.
Scott A. Whitmire scottw@advsysres.com Advanced Systems Research 25238 127th Avenue SE tel:(206)631-7868 Kent Washington 98031 fax:(206)630-2238
Consultants in networking, network-based applications, and software metrics.
3.16) What Are Visual Object-Oriented Programming Systems?
See also http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/computing/visual.html. There is also a comp.lang.visual and FAQ, similar to the www html above.
Visual programming is the use of graphics and graphical techniques in computer programming. It is becoming more common to see many approaches to visual/graphical programming languages emerging that incorporate the object-oriented programming philisophy. Toward this end, developers of new programming languages and programming environments are exploring how to combine visual programming with object-oriented programming by investigating how the basic concepts of OOP -- data abstraction, instantiation, composition, and specialization -- create new opportunities for programming using visual means of construction.
A workshop on this topic was conducted at the 1993 OOPSLA, and a workshop summary appeared as part of the 1993 OOPSLA Addendum. Several of the presenters at the workshop developed full versions of their presentations, which are available in book form:
Visual Object-Oriented Programming: Concepts and Environments, Margaret Burnett, Adele Goldberg, and Ted Lewis, editors, Prentice-Hall/Manning Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995.
http://www.cs.orst.edu/techpub/vlib/vlib/Visual-OOP/CARD.html
----- Margaret Burnett . e-mail: burnett@cs.orst.edu Assistant Professor . WWW page: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/ Computer Science Dept. . Oregon State University . Corvallis, Oregon 97331 USA .
3.17) What Tutorials Are Available On Object-Oriented Concepts and Languages?
Date: Thu, 25 May 95 17:31:21 EDT From: wheeler@ida.org (David Wheeler)
A list of C/C++ tutorials, including online tutorials, is maintained at: http://vinny.csd.mu.edu/learn.html
Note that C and C++ are treated together. One of the tutorials listed is the course: "Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Using C++", a self-paced class within the Globewide Network Academy [GNA]; this course may be found at: http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/text/cc/index.html
Another course listed is the Coronado Enterprises C++ Tutorial, which assumes that the user is already familiar with C (not necessarily ANSI C). It may be downloaded from: anonymous@oak.oakland.edu:simtel/msdos/cpluspls/cptuts22.zip anonymous@oak.oakland.edu:simtel/msdos/cpluspls/cptutt22.zip
One Ada 95 on-line tutorial is Lovelace, which is intended for those who are already familiar with other algorithmic programming languages and are somewhat familiar with object orientation. Lovelace is available at: anonymous@lglftp.epfl.ch:/pub/Ada/HTML/lovelace.zip http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/lovelace.html
Other Ada tutorials are listed in: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Tutorials/Lovelace/othert.html
The Sather home page includes a list of Sather tutorials in its "Getting Started" section: http://http.icsi.berkeley.edu/Sather/
The BETA language is introduced in: http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~beta/Tutorials/BETAintroduction/BETAintroduction.html
A large list of SELF-related papers available electronically is at: http://self.stanford.edu/papers/papers.html
The Booch design method is briefly described in http://www.itr.ch/tt/case/BoochReferenz/
For a list of many different resources of computer-language-specific information, see the YAHOO list of computer languages at: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Languages/
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