Li, WeiCooley, CharlesLewis, John A.Henry, Sallie M.2013-06-192013-06-191990http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19637Software 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.application/pdfenIn CopyrightTechnical reportTR-90-55http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000237/01/TR-90-55.pdf