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Metrics appropriate to object-oriented information systems development are urgently required. As part of an ongoing evaluation of existing 00 metrics and the development and validation of new ones, here we systematically consider the various perspectives of an object-oriented system: inside a class, external at the class level, system level, system level relationships and inheritance coupling
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Henderson-Sellers, B. (1995). Identifying Internal and External Characteristics of Classes likely to be useful as Structural Complexity Metrics. In: Patel, D., Sun, Y., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_18
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