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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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85Software Metrics
Lee etal. (1995) proposed information ow-based cohesion (ICH) metric. ICH for a class is
dened as the weighted sum of the number of invocations of other methods of the same
class, weighted by the number of parameters of the invoked method.
3.5.4 Inheritance Metrics
The inheritance represents parent–child relationship and is measured in terms of num-
ber of subclasses, base classes, and depth of inheritance hierarchy by many authors in
the literature. Inheritance represents form of reusability. Chidamber and Kemerer (1994)
dened depth of inheritance tree (DIT) metric as maximum number of steps from class to
root node in a ...
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ISBN: 9781498719735