Quantifying the Deign Quality of Object Oriented System The metric based rules and heuristic

TL;DR

This paper proposes metric-based rules and heuristics to quantify the design quality of object-oriented systems, addressing the complexity of design properties like polymorphism and encapsulation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel set of metrics and heuristics specifically aimed at evaluating OO design quality comprehensively.

Findings

Metrics correlate with key quality attributes

Heuristics effectively identify design issues

Improves maintainability assessment

Abstract

The design structure of OO software has decisive impact on its quality. The design must be strongly correlated with quality characteristics like analyzability, changeability, stability and testability, which are important for maintaining the system. But due to the diversity and complexity of the design properties of OO system e.g. Polymorphism, encapsulation, coupling it becomes cumbersome.