Here I put down the topic I chose for my literature review, exactly as I submitted it as part of an on-line assignment. The choice is only preliminary but I feel I might stick with it...

Topic

Metrics for Object Oriented Design

Justification

Last year I was introduced to McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity (CC) measure, which is used to establish the number of tests required to test a software module. I found the idea of taking a piece of code, computing a measure from it, and using that to improve the code quality, very interesting. A high CC measure can point out code that is too complex, hard to test, and thus very likely to be infested with undetected ‘bugs’. This measure can aid the developers identify potentially dangerous code that should be refactored and thoroughly tested.

There is apparently quite a wide variety of other measures and the ones that are concerned with object-oriented programming paradigm are of most interest to me. These measures are called Metrics for Object Oriented Design (MOOD) and I would like to read more about them, get to know them in more detail, try them out using various tools, and for my master thesis maybe even come up with my own MOOD metric.