A comparison of metrics for UML class diagrams
Tong Yi, Fangjun Wu, Chengzhi Gan · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2004
Currently, more and more research results on measuring class diagrams have been developed in literatures. In order to study these metrics systematically and deeply, this paper analyzes and compares some typical metrics for UML class diagrams from different viewpoints, different types of relationships, different types of metric values, complexity, and theoretical and empirical validation. Finally, the authors discuss their advantages and disadvantages as well as the existing problems and the prospects.