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Brief Project Description
Object Oriented (OO) technologies have emerged as a dominant software engineering practice. Various sets of object-oriented metrics have been proposed as a means of assessing whether systems under investigation exhibit characteristics of quality software. The more established ones include metrics suite proposed by Chidamber and kemerer, Lorenz and Kidd as well as one by Abreu. All three sets attempt to capture the key elements of Object-Oriented Software: encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism.
The objective of my thesis project is to conduct study and review the existing metrics suite, evaluate them and discuss how well it can be adopted into the industry in ensuring good quality Object Oriented Design. It should demonstrate, with some empirical evidence, the usefulness of the metrics as quality indicators for software products.
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~Below is extracted from SOC Honours Year Project Description~
Honours Year Project
Proposals (CS4101)
H98040
| Project ID | H98040 |
| Title | Investigating Object Oriented Metrics |
| Proposer | bimlesh |
| Co-Proposer | |
| Category | HYP |
| Project Areas | Software Systems |
| Maximum Number of Students | 1 |
| External Sponsor | |
| Description | Conducting a study of OO Metrics e.g. the metric-suite advocated by Chidamber and Kemerer, and evaluate these for software projects . Investigate relationships between metrics and project quality. Advantages and drawbacks of OO metrics can be explored and possible improvements to these OO metrics can be suggested. |
| Start Date/ Duration |
/ 2 Semesters |
| Requirement | |
| Skill | Strong interest in Software Engineering and Software Measurement |
| Benefit | This study can provide the practitioners with some empirical evidence demonstrating that the OO metrics can be useful quality indicators for software products. |
| Lab Required | Honours Lab 2 |
| Reviewer 1's Comments | dongjs has reviewed this proposal. His comment is: important and useful! |
| Reviewer 2's Comments | stan has reviewed this proposal. His comment is: very good project |