A New Complete Class Complexity Metric

Software complexity metric is essential for minimizing the cost of software maintenance. Package level and system level complexity cannot be measured without class level complexity. This research addresses the class complexity metrics. This paper studies the existing class complexity metrics and proposes a new class complexity metric CCC (Complete class complexity metric), CCC metric is then analytically evaluated by Weyuker's property. An automated CCCMETRIC tool was developed for empirical sample of these metrics.

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