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project development and progress, we can scrutinize the classes and prepare
alternative design structures wherever necessary.
7. Evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms help in solving the optimiza-
tion problems and require the tness function to be dened. Software metrics help
in dening the tness function (Harman and Clark 2004) in these algorithms.
8. Last, but not the least, some new software metrics that help to improve the quality
of the system in some way can be dened in addition to the metrics proposed in
the literature.
3.9.5 Industrial Relevance of Software Metrics
The software ...