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Applicability of Weyuker's properties on OO metrics: Some misunderstandings

Misra Sanjay (Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering Atilim University Ankara, Turkey)
Akman Ibrahim (Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering Atilim University Ankara, Turkey)

Weyuker's properties have been suggested as a guiding tool in identification of a good and comprehensive complexity measure by several researchers. Weyuker proposed nine properties to evaluate complexity measure for traditional programming. However, they are extensively used for evaluating object-oriented (OO) metrics, although the object-oriented features are entirely different in nature. In this paper, two recently reported OO metrics were evaluated and, based on it; the usefulness and relevance of these properties for evaluation purpose for object-oriented systems is discussed.

Keywords: software complexity measures, Weyuker's properties, evaluation criteria, object oriented metrics