Object-Oriented Design Quality Models A Survey and Comparison

Abstract

Since 1994, many Object-Oriented Design (OOD) quality models had appeared. OOD quality models aim is assessing OOD quality characteristics, such as maintainability, in a quantitative way through establishing relationships between OOD quality characteristics, and metrics computable from OOD diagrams, such as Depth of Inheritance Tree (DIT). This paper presents the results of our survey of the major OOD quality models appeared in literature since the MOOSE model in 1994, till the QMOOD model in 2002, then it proposes a set of desirable properties that should be possessed by OOD quality models and acomparison among the presented models with respect to the proposed desirable properties set