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Object-Oriented Inheritance Metrics: Cognitive Complexity Perspective

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Identifying high cognitive complexity modules can lead to a better quality software system and can help during maintenance also. It has been found that inheritance has an impact on cognitive complexity of a software system. In this paper, two inheritance metrics based on cognitive complexity, one at class level CCI (Class Complexity due to Inheritance) and another at program level ACI (Average Complexity of a program due to Inheritance), have been proposed for object-oriented software systems. These metrics are also compared with other well known object-oriented inheritance metrics.

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

    Deepti Mishra

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Surveying and Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, QLD 4350, Australia

    Peng Wen

  2. School of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, QLD 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Yuefeng Li

  3. Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02008, Warsaw, Poland

    Lech Polkowski

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, S4S 0A2, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Yiyu Yao

  5. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Informatics, Shimane University, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, 693-8501, Shimane, Japan

    Shusaku Tsumoto

  6. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

    Guoyin Wang

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Mishra, D., Mishra, A. (2009). Object-Oriented Inheritance Metrics: Cognitive Complexity Perspective. In: Wen, P., Li, Y., Polkowski, L., Yao, Y., Tsumoto, S., Wang, G. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02962-2_57

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