HOW TO EVALUATE OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Adoption of object-oriented technology by the software industry is to a large extent interfered with a lack of appropriate evaluation criter ia. Measures of object-oriented systems are necessary in order to real ize and achieve expected benefits and advantages of object technology. This paper presents some evaluation criteria, measures and metrics, s uitable for object-oriented software development. The implemented prot otype of OOMetTool that provides an automatic support for metric data gathering is described and some initial findings are presented.