Koyuncu, MuratMisra,S.Koyuncu,M.Mısra, SanjayCrasso,M.Mateos,C.Zunino,A.Information Systems EngineeringComputer Engineering2024-07-052024-07-05201219978-364231127-71611-334910.1007/978-3-642-31128-4_172-s2.0-84863952740https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31128-4_17https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/3672Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Universidade Federal do Reconcavo da Bahia (UFRB); Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS); University of Perugia; University of Basilicata (UB)In this paper, we propose a suite of cognitive metrics for evaluating complexity of object-oriented (OO) codes. The proposed metric suite evaluates several important features of OO languages. Specifically, the proposed metrics are to measure method complexity, message complexity (coupling), attributes complexity and class complexity. We propose also a code complexity by considering the complexity due to inheritance for the whole system. All these proposed metrics (except attribute complexity) use the cognitive aspect of the code in terms of cognitive weight. All the metrics have critically examined through theoretical and empirical validation processes. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessattributesclasscognitive complexitycouplinginheritancemessagesmethodssoftware metricsvalidationConference Object7336 LNCSPART 4234247