LI METRICS WHICH PREDICTS MAINTAINABILITY

Abstract

Software metrics have been studied in the procedural paradigm as a quantitative means of assessing the software development process as well as the quality of the software products. Several studies have validated that various metrics are useful indicator of maintenance. However, software metrics have rarely been studied in object oriented paradigm. Very few metrics have been proposed to measure object oriented systems, and the proposed ones have not been validated. This research concentrate on Li object oriented metrics and the analysis of these metrics with maintenance factor. In addition a set of new metrics are proposed that can find the impact on maintainability of a class by using the combination of one Li metric with another metric. Keywords: Software metrics, Object-oriented metrics, Li Metrics, Maintainability.