A Methodology for Empirical Quality Assessment of Object-Oriented Design

TL;DR

This paper proposes a methodology combining controlled experimentation and Logical Scoring of Preferences to empirically evaluate the overall quality of object-oriented designs.

Contribution

It introduces a novel methodology for empirical quality assessment of object-oriented design using specific experimental and scoring techniques.

Findings

Effective evaluation of design quality achieved

Methodology applicable to different design cases

Provides a structured approach for quality measurement

Abstract

The direct measurement of quality is difficult because there is no way we can measure quality factors. For measuring these factors, we have to express them in terms of metrics or models. Researchers have developed quality models that attempt to measure quality in terms of attributes, characteristics and metrics. In this work we have proposed the methodology of controlled experimentation coupled with power of Logical Scoring of Preferences to evaluate global quality of four object-oriented designs.