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Inheritance is a key feature of object oriented paradigm. It is actually the sharing of attributes and operations among classes based on a hierarchical relationship. Software reusability is the basic concept of software engineering that is affected by the sophistication of inheritance hierarchy so in order to determine complexity of inheritance which in turn has impact on software reusability; we have proposed class inheritance metrics and explained them in an elaborative manner. In the work presented here we proposed different class inheritance metrics, compared them with existing ones and attempted to present an alternate solution with some extended features to find out intricacy of class inheritance which significantly concerns with reusability.
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Ilyas, M., Küng, J., Huynh, V.Q.P. (2017). Effectiveness of Object Oriented Inheritance Metrics in Software Reusability. In: Dang, T., Wagner, R., Küng, J., Thoai, N., Takizawa, M., Neuhold, E. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. FDSE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70004-5_16
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