An automated tool for computing object oriented metrics using XML

Abstract

The importance of object oriented metrics is on the rise and a lot of research is being carried out on various aspects of using object oriented metrics in evaluating the quality attributes of object oriented systems. Metrics computation is an integral step in all these research activities. This demands a quick and easy way to have the metrics computed and presented to the research community. Existing tools fall short as it is not easy to extend them to new metrics or language. This paper focuses on the design of an automated object oriented metrics tool which has a generic framework for computing the metrics. The tool converts the source code developed using a particular object oriented language to a language independent XML format which is then used for computing the required metrics. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.