Investigation of metrics for object-oriented design logical stability

Seventh European Conference onSoftware Maintenance and Reengineering, 2003. Proceedings. Pub Date : 2003-03-26 DOI:10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192427

Mahmoud O. Elish, D. Rine

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As changes are made to an object-oriented design, its structure and/or behavior may be affected. Modifications made to one class can have ripple effects on other classes in the design. The stability of an object-oriented design indicates its resistance to interclass propagation of changes that the design would have when it is modified There are two aspects of design stability: logical stability and performance stability. Logical stability is concerned with design structure, whereas performance stability is concerned with design behavior. In this study, the object-oriented design metrics proposed by Chidamber and Kemerer (1994) were adopted as candidate indicators of the logical stability of object-oriented designs. The objective was to investigate whether or not there are correlations between these metrics and the logical stability of classes. The experimental results indicated that WMC, DIT CBO, RFC, and LCOM metrics are negatively correlated with the logical stability of classes. However, no correlation was found between NOC metric and the logical stability of classes.

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面向对象设计逻辑稳定性的度量研究

当对面向对象设计进行更改时，其结构和/或行为可能会受到影响。对一个类所做的修改可能对设计中的其他类产生连锁反应。面向对象设计的稳定性表明，当修改设计时，它能够抵抗类间传播的变化。设计稳定性有两个方面:逻辑稳定性和性能稳定性。逻辑稳定性与设计结构有关，而性能稳定性与设计行为有关。本研究采用Chidamber和Kemerer(1994)提出的面向对象设计指标作为面向对象设计逻辑稳定性的候选指标。目的是调查这些指标与类的逻辑稳定性之间是否存在相关性。实验结果表明，WMC、DIT CBO、RFC和LCOM指标与类的逻辑稳定性呈负相关。然而，NOC度量与类的逻辑稳定性之间没有相关性。

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