Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics Against Standard Properties

The field of software development has adopted object-oriented mechanism (OOM) widely. The software quality can be measured by evaluating quality measures such as reliability, reusability and maintainability. Reusability is most important attribute of software quality that helps developers produce high-quality, affordable software. Various metrics and model are available that can be utilize to evaluate the quality of object-oriented (OO) software. Here, we propose a metric set consisting of five metrics namely inherited class count, inherited attribute count, inherited method count, inheritance hierarchy, and degree of reusability to describe the effects of inheritance and reusability on the design quality of OO software. The validation of these metrics through three major validation framework has also been done.