Enhancing mood metrics using encapsulation
Sunint Saini, Mehak Aggarwal · International Conference on Information and Automation · 2007
The requirement to improve software productivity and software quality has promoted the research on software metrics. Encapsulation is a powerful mechanism in Object-Oriented programming and it is critical for building large complex software; which can be maintained and extended. Since the emergence of the Object-Oriented approach to software development, it has been recognized that the development of Object-Oriented metrics to measure the quality of software is a new challenge. Many researchers have already risen to this challenge, most notably Chidamber & Kemerer, Abreu, Lorez and Kidd. But the metrics introduced by the above proponents lack in measuring the encapsulation mechanism. This paper purposes a new metric to measure encapsulation. Encapsulation constitutes both privacy and unity and these two attributes have been taken to purpose the above mentioned metrics. A statistical analysis on EF (Encapsulation Factor) metric is also done in this study.