Context Coupling relations reflect the dependencies between software entities and can be
used to assess the quality of a program. For this reason, a vast amount of them has been …

A smart contract (SC) is a programme stored in the Ethereum blockchain by a contract‐
creation transaction. SC developers deploy an instance of the SC and attempt to execute it …

As stated by Tom DeMacro, something that cannot be measured is uncontrollable. Thus, a
number of metrics have been developed to measure the complexity associated with software …

Coupling is one of the most important properties that affect the quality of the design and
implementation of a software system. In the context of object oriented software development …

Selecting between different design options is a crucial decision for object-oriented software
developers that affects code quality characteristics. Conventionally developers use their …

This chapter presents the analysis of ten recently proposed object-oriented metrics based on
cognitive informatics. The metrics based on cognitive informatics use cognitive weight …

Polymorphism is one of the main pillars of object-oriented paradigm. It induces hidden forms
of class dependencies which may impact software quality, resulting in higher cost factor for …

Software metric is used to measure the quality of a software. The conventional metric may be
categorized as procedural and Object-oriented metrics. Object-oriented Programming is …

This paper discusses the limitations of the Improved Weighted Composite Complexity
measure, a measure used to determine the cognitive complexity of software systems. This …

Nowadays, software designers have adopted modelling languages that help to
communicate the dynamic behavior of UML behavioral diagrams. As it is with other software …