Object-oriented software development techniques - combining testing and metrics

Software testing methodologies and metrics are widely applied to assuring and evaluating software quality. However, current software testing and metrics based on object-oriented programming languages are developed individually. This paper introduces an important method named URI (Unit Repeated Inheritance) to build integrated Object-Oriented Testing and Object-Oriented Metrics. The approach describes ILT (Inheritance Level Technique) methods for a guide to test software errors and measure software complexity. The proposed techniques show that inheritance has a close relation with object-oriented software complexity and reveal that overuse of repeated (multiple) inheritance will increase software complexity and be prone to implicit software errors. Also, two test criteria : intra level first and inter level first are presented.