McQuillan, Jacqueline A. and Power, James F. (2006) A Definition of the Chidamber and Kemerer Metrics suite for UML. Technical Report NUIM-CS-TR-2006-03. Technical Report. Dept. of Computer Science.

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Abstract

Since there is no standard formalism for defining software metrics, many of the measures that exist have some ambiguity in their definitions which hinders their comparison and implementation. We address this problem by presenting an approach for defining software metrics. This approach is based on expressing the measures as Object Constraint Language queries over a language metamodel. To illustrate the approach, we specify how the Chidamber and Kemerer metrics suite can be measured from Unified Modelling Language class diagrams by presenting formal definitions for these metrics using the Unified Modelling Language 2.0 metamodel.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Additional Information:	This report is intended to serve as a supplement to the paper ‘Towards re-usable metric definitions at the meta-level’ that appeared in the Postgraduate Workshop of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Nantes, France, 2006
Keywords:	OO metrics; class diagram metrics; metamodels; UML; OCL;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	2391
Depositing User:	CS Editor
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2011 14:55
Publisher:	Dept. of Computer Science
URI:	http://www.cs.nuim.ie/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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