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.... methods inherited by a class to the total number of methods accessible by members in the class [36] MHF (Method Hiding Factor) is defined as the ratio of the sum of the invisibilities of all methods defined in all classes to the total number of methods defined in the system under consideration [39]. NAD (Number of Abstract Data types) is the number of user defined objects used as attributes in a class that are necessary to instantiate an object instance of the class [36] NCM (Number of Class Methods in a class) measures the measures available in a class but not in its instances [37] NIV ....

.... of classes a class is coupled with [1] CCP (Class Coupling) measures connections between classes based on the messages they exchange [45] CFA (Coupling Factor) is the ratio of the maximum possible number of couplings in the system to the actual number of couplings not imputable to inheritance [39]. 2.2.4 INHERITANCE METRICS AIF (Attribute Inheritance Factor) is the ratio of the sum of inherited attributes in all classes of the system under consideration to the total number of available attributes for all classes [46] DIT (Depth of Inheritance Tree) measures the number of ancestors of a ....

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R. Harrison, An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics , IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-24, Volume 6, 1998.

....Simula in the 1960s, it was not until the 1980s that the work was popularised and its use became more widespread. Presently, C and Java are widely used and widely taught. The OO paradigm could be regarded as the orthodoxy of the late 1990s. Unfortunately, with a few notable exceptions such as [5, 9 11, 17], we have comparatively little empirically based knowledge of the behaviour of systems that have been implemented using OOT. Thus as OOT, and 2 particularly the use of C , continues to be heavily invested in, the need for research into better understanding, and prediction, of the ....

....using the Shlaer Mellor method. From this study a number of findings have emerged. First, there is very little use of many of the constructs of the OO paradigm. In particular, there is little use of class inheritance and hence polymorphism. This replicates the findings of other studies such as [5, 9]. This does not necessarily mean that the developers were right to avoid significant use of inheritance. Moreover, it may in part be a consequence of the development method or the fact that the C language does not enforce an OO approach. The fact that this was the project team s first ....

Harrison, R., S.J. Counsell, and R.V. Nithi, 'An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24(6), pp491-496, 1998.

.... high quality software [2] In this paper, we investigate five OO systems, all written in C , and empirically evaluate hem using a subset of Chidamber and Kemerer s (C K) OO design metrics [11] together with two further inheritance based design metrics developed as part of the MOOPS project [17][18] The results of our analysis (and that of other investigations) seem to support the thesis that inheritance is either used sparingly during the development process, or is used incorrectly [5] 9] Use of inheritance does not seem to be delivering the benefits it promised, and it is not clear ....

Harrison, R., Counsell, S., and Nithi, R., "An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics". IEEE Trans. on Soft. Engineering}, 24(6), pp.491--496, 1998. 457

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R. Harrison, S. J. Counsell, and R. Nithi. An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24(6):491--496, 1998.

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Rachel Harrison, 1998. An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object Oriented Software Metrics, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, vol. 24. 444

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Rachel Harrison, Steve J. Counsell, An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object Oriented Software Metrics, Vol. 24, Issue 6, pp. 491-496, 1998.

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