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tracking and eort prediction (Minkiewicz 2000; Teologolu 1999). Predictive
object points were designed specically for object-oriented software and result
from measurement of the object-oriented properties of the system.
Predictive object points support the problem of the inclusion of reuse
(Section 4.5), means to measure the amount of raw functionality the software
delivers, but also to include information about communication between objects
and reuse through inheritance. e core of the predictive object points is the
weighted methods per class metric of Chidember and Kemerer. But there is also
inuence by the object-oriented metrics depth of i