Developing a complexity metric for inner classes
In some of the object-oriented programming languages such as Java, a regular class could contain one or more nested classes. These nested classes are called inner classes which are supposed to carry out more specific tasks for their outer class. However, extensive use of inner classes would result i...
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| author | Sim, Hui Tee Atan, Rodziah Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim |
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| description | In some of the object-oriented programming languages such as Java, a regular class could contain one or more nested classes. These nested classes are called inner classes which are supposed to carry out more specific tasks for their outer class. However, extensive use of inner classes would result in increasing program complexity and costly maintenance. We propose a complexity metric to measure the complexity extent of inner classes. Our metric is able to measure the complexity of inner classes in term of breadth and depth. © 2005 - 2009 JATIT. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | upm-139782012-04-04T03:42:37Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13978/ Developing a complexity metric for inner classes Sim, Hui Tee Atan, Rodziah Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim In some of the object-oriented programming languages such as Java, a regular class could contain one or more nested classes. These nested classes are called inner classes which are supposed to carry out more specific tasks for their outer class. However, extensive use of inner classes would result in increasing program complexity and costly maintenance. We propose a complexity metric to measure the complexity extent of inner classes. Our metric is able to measure the complexity of inner classes in term of breadth and depth. © 2005 - 2009 JATIT. All rights reserved. Asian Research Publication Network 2010 Article PeerReviewed Sim, Hui Tee and Atan, Rodziah and Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim (2010) Developing a complexity metric for inner classes. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 12 (2 ). pp. 77-83. ISSN 1992-8645 Object-oriented programming languages. Programming languages (Electronic computers). English |
| spellingShingle | Object-oriented programming languages. Programming languages (Electronic computers). Sim, Hui Tee Atan, Rodziah Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title | Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title_full | Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title_fullStr | Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title_short | Developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| title_sort | developing a complexity metric for inner classes |
| topic | Object-oriented programming languages. Programming languages (Electronic computers). |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13978/ |