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Measuring Object-Orientedness: The Invocation Profile

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New Approaches in Software Measurement (IWSM 2000)

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This paper introduces the invocation profile as the basis for a suite of metrics to indicate the presence and mix of object-oriented mechanisms in a system written in an object-oriented language. This addresses concerns of practitioners and stakeholders that object-oriented mechanisms should be adequately exploited in such a system and gives an indication of the skills needed by developers for system enhancement and maintenance. An outline is given of plans to implement this metrics suite for systems written in Java.

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  1. Centre for Systems and Software Engineering, South Bank University, Borough Rd, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Peter Rosner & Tobias Mayer

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 8AB, Hertfordshire, UK

    Tracy Hall

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  1. Institut für Verteilte Systeme, Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner Dumke

  2. Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Québec, Montréal, Canada

    Alain Abran

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Rosner, P., Hall, T., Mayer, T. (2001). Measuring Object-Orientedness: The Invocation Profile. In: Dumke, R., Abran, A. (eds) New Approaches in Software Measurement. IWSM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44704-0_2

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