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    Software Metrics and the Object-Oriented Paradigm
    Li, Wei; Cooley, Charles; Lewis, John A.; Henry, Sallie M. (Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1990)
    Software metrics are in use to guide current software development practices. As commercial organizations make use of the benefits of the object-oriented paradigm, the desire to apply metrics to that paradigm has logically followed. However, standard procedural metrics are limited in their ability to describe true object-oriented designs and code, and in some aspects fail outright. This paper describes the difficulties in applying standard metrics to object-oriented code and defines a set of metrics which are specifically geared toward the features which make the object-oriented approach unique.