Mishra, DeeptiComputer EngineeringComputer Engineering2024-10-062024-10-0620111335-91502-s2.0-79955625461https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/8562Mishra, Deepti/0000-0001-5144-3811Two inheritance complexity metrics, one at class level CCI (Class Complexity due to Inheritance) and another at program level ACT (Average Complexity of a program due to Inheritance), have been proposed for object-oriented software systems. These proposed metrics are evaluated with Weyuker's properties and compared with other well known object-oriented inheritance metrics. It has been found that the proposed metrics better represent the complexity, due to inheritance, of a class and a program. Weyuker's property 7 (Significance of Permutation) has received a negative response regarding its applicability to object-oriented software metrics. It has been observed that this property is not satisfied by any of the object-oriented inheritance metrics proposed so far. Contrary to past beliefs, the relevance of this property to object-oriented systems has been brought out in this paper. Examples with C++ code are also presented to support the applicability of this property.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessWeyuker's propertiessoftware metricsobject-oriented systemsinheritancecomplexityArticleQ4Q4302267293WOS:0002897066000054