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A Systematic Review on the Impact of CK Metrics on the Functional Correctness of Object-Oriented Classes

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The Chidamber and Kemerer (CK) metrics suite is one of the most popular and highly cited suites for measuring Object-Oriented (OO) designs. A great amount of empirical studies have been conducted to evaluate these metrics as indicators of the functional correctness of classes in OO systems. However, there has been no attempt to systematically review and report these empirical evidences. To identify the relation of CK metrics with functional correctness, we have performed a systematic review of empirical evidences published in the literature that support or reject CK metrics as indicators of functional correctness. Our search strategy identified 20 papers that contain relevant empirical evidences. Our results conclude that WMC, CBO, RFC and LCOM metrics are good indicators of functional correctness of OO classes. Inheritance metrics, DIT and NOC, are however not useful indicators of functional correctness.

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  1. Department of Information & Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Yasser A. Khan, Mahmoud O. Elish & Mohamed El-Attar

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  1. Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Systems, University of Basilicata, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Gidan Kwano Campus, Minna, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Sao Francisco Xavier, 524, 50. andar, sala 5145-F, Maracana, 20, 550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Nadia Nedjah

  5. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Khan, Y.A., Elish, M.O., El-Attar, M. (2012). A Systematic Review on the Impact of CK Metrics on the Functional Correctness of Object-Oriented Classes. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7336. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31128-4_19

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