Article highlight: Empirical evidence on the link between object-oriented measures and external quality attributes: a systematic literature review
Link to full text
This article presents an interesting systematic review where the authors set off to look for evidence of correlation between OO metrics and quality. What I like about this paper:
- nice overview of which metrics suites exist for OO programs
- nice overview which external quality metrics are used
- essentially only 99 studies exist which have the right scope and quality
- the number of studies seem to be growing – even in the past 2-3 years
- the 20-year old CK suite is still the most popular one
Recommended reading for those who want to see which metrics are the best predictors, when and why.
