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Application of Object-Oriented Metrics To C++ and Java: A Comparative Study

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943371.1943386

Published: 05 May 2011 Publication History

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The increasing importance of software measurement has led to design and development of new software measures. As the development of object-oriented software is rising, more and more metrics are being defined for object-oriented programming languages. But there is a little understanding of comparative application of many of these measures to different programming languages. As a consequence, it is very difficult for software managers and developers to select suitable measures and programming languages for object-oriented systems. In this paper, we investigate 23 object-oriented metrics proposed by various researchers. The metrics are applied to same set of 15 programs coded in C++ and Java in an attempt to make comparative study of these two prominent object-oriented programming languages. The work done here reveals that these object-oriented metrics can be applied successfully to both Java and C++. But, Java proves to be more object-oriented than C++ as per intuition. However, counting rules defined for computation of these metrics should be framed more carefully.

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Bakar N(2016)The Analysis of Object-Oriented Metrics in C++ ProgramsLecture Notes on Software Engineering10.7763/LNSE.2016.V4.2224:1(48-52)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.7763/LNSE.2016.V4.222
Kumari UBhasin S(2011)A composite complexity measure for component-based systemsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2047414.204742636:6(1-5)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2047414.2047426

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Application of Object-Oriented Metrics To C++ and Java: A Comparative Study
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 2

March 2011

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1943371

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Bakar N(2016)The Analysis of Object-Oriented Metrics in C++ ProgramsLecture Notes on Software Engineering10.7763/LNSE.2016.V4.2224:1(48-52)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.7763/LNSE.2016.V4.222
Kumari UBhasin S(2011)A composite complexity measure for component-based systemsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2047414.204742636:6(1-5)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2047414.2047426

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