CLASS QUALITY EVALUATION USING CLASS QUALITY SCORECARDS

A major problem faced by the software professionals is the inability to produce the correct reliable software within the specified duration and budget. These failures are caused by the complex nature of the problem description and due to improper insight of the deliverables which is to be produced after the specified task. These problems can be reduced to an extent with the introduction of software metrics. The problem mainly arises because of the failure to measure the common set of properties in the development process. Therefore the introduction of software metrics alone cannot solve the problem completely but also the ultization of the metrics set will provide a partial solution to the problem faced by the professionals in the software metrics. The purpose of this paper is to study and analyze the various metric suites for object oriented systems, and hence examine the existing parameters of the suite and their contribution to software quality. Then design and develop a software prototype called “Class Break point Analyzer (CBA)” for extracting the parameters of the studied metric suites. Then build “Class Quality Scorecards” to study the contribution of these parameters to software quality.