An Analysis of OO Software Metrics

This paper is a survey of software metrics literature with particular reference to reuse, quality, and productivity, and was prepared as part of the MOOD 1 project. The paper has three main parts: the literature survey, the selected metrics list, and the information to be gathered for process metrics. In the literature survey, papers which relate to metrics are outlined; in the selected metrics list some selected metrics are outlined. This paper is useful for the MOOD project or any project with broadly similar aims, such as to measure and improve reuse, productivity and software quality. 0 Jer Hogan's email address is "Jer.Hogan@dcs.warwick.ac.uk". His world-wide web page is at "http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~jer/". 1 MOOD stands for Metrics for Object-Oriented Developments. The MOOD project will compare and contrast the effectiveness of two different object-oriented methodologies for reuse, quality, and productivity. This work is being undertaken by Parallax Solutions Ltd. and th..