Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice

Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems

By: Michele Lanza, S. Ducasse (Foreword by), Radu Marinescu

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Metrics are paramount in every engineering discipline. Software engineering, however, is not considered a classical engineering activity for several reasons. In general, if a software system is seen to deliver the required functionality, only few people if any care about the internals. Moreover, defining, understanding and applying software metrics often looks like an overly complex activity, recommended only to 'trained professionals'.

Lanza and Marinescu demystify the design metrics used to assess the size, quality and complexity of object-oriented software systems. Based on statistical information from many industrial projects and generally accepted semantics they deduce many single and combined threshold values. They show in detail how to identify collaboration and classification disharmony patterns in code, how to visualize their results using the freely available CodeCrawler visualization tool, and how to devise possible remedies.

The combination of theoretically sound results and practically tested procedures and solution paths makes this book an ideal companion for professional software architects, developers and quality engineers. The pattern-oriented description of disharmonies offers easy access to detecting shortcomings and applying solution strategies.

"This well-written book is an important piece of work that takes the seemingly forgotten art of object-oriented metrics to the next level in terms of relevance and usefulness." Richard C. Gronback, Chief Scientist, Borland Software Corporation.

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Introduction	p. 1
Facts on Measurements and Visualization	p. 11
Metrics and Thresholds	p. 13
Visualizing Metrics and Design	p. 18
Conclusions and Outlook	p. 21
Characterizing the Design	p. 23
The Overview Pyramid	p. 24
Polymetric Views	p. 33
Metrics at Work	p. 40
Conclusions and Outlook	p. 44
Evaluating the Design	p. 45
Detection Strategies	p. 48
The Class Blueprint	p. 58
Conclusions and Outlook	p. 70
Identity Disharmonies	p. 73
Rules of Identity Harmony	p. 73
Overview of Identity Disharmonies	p. 78
God Class	p. 80
Feature Envy	p. 84
Data Class	p. 88
Brain Method	p. 92
Brain Class	p. 97
Significant Duplication	p. 102
Recovering from Identity Disharmonies	p. 109
Collaboration Disharmonies	p. 115
Collaboration Harmony Rule	p. 115
Overview of Collaboration Disharmonies	p. 118
Intensive Coupling	p. 120
Dispersed Coupling	p. 127
Shotgun Surgery	p. 133
Recovering from Collaboration Disharmonies	p. 137
Classification Disharmonies	p. 139
Classification Harmony Rules	p. 139
Overview of Classification Disharmonies	p. 143
Refused Parent Bequest	p. 145
Tradition Breaker	p. 152
Recovering from Classification Disharmonies	p. 159
Catalogue of Metrics Used in the Book	p. 163
Elements of a Metric Definition	p. 163
Alphabetical Catalogue of Metrics	p. 167
iPlasma	p. 175
Introduction	p. 175
iPlasma at Work	p. 175
Industrial Validation	p. 179
Tool Information	p. 180
CodeCrawler	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
CodeCrawler at Work	p. 181
Industrial Validation	p. 183
Tool Information	p. 184
Figures in Color	p. 185
References	p. 195
Index	p. 201
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Using Software Metrics to Characterize, Evaluate, and Improve the Design of Object-Oriented Systems

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