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Theoretical Validation of Inheritance Metric in QMOOD against Weyuker's Properties

  • Alharthi, Mariam (Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology FCIT, King Abdul-Aziz University KAU) ;
  • Aljedaibi, Wajdi (Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology FCIT, King Abdul-Aziz University KAU)
  • Received : 2021.07.05
  • Published : 2021.07.30
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Abstract

Quality Models are important element of the software industry to develop and implement the best quality product in the market. This type of model provides aid in describing quality measures, which directly enhance the user satisfaction and software quality. In software development, the inheritance technique is an important mechanism used in object-oriented programming that allows the developers to define new classes having all the properties of super class. This technique supports the hierarchy design for classes and makes an "is-a" association among the super and subclasses. This paper describes a standard procedure for validating the inheritance metric in Quality Model for Object-Oriented Design (QMOOD) by using a set of nine properties established by Weyuker. These properties commonly using for investigating the effectiveness of the metric. The integration of two measuring methods (i.e. QMOOD and Weyuker) will provide new way for evaluating the software quality based on the inheritance context. The output of this research shows the extent of satisfaction of the inheritance metric in QMOOD against Weyuker nine properties. Further results proved that Weyker's property number nine could not fulfilled by any inheritance metrics. This research introduces a way for measuring software that developed using object-oriented approach. The theoretical validation of the inheritance metric presented in this paper is a small step taken towards producing quality software and in providing assistance to the software industry.

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