Estimation of Maintainability in Object Oriented Design Phase: State of the art

Object oriented designing is an essential part of software environment. This study focuses on a set of object oriented metrics that can be used to measure the maintainability of an object oriented design. These metrics for object oriented design focus on measurements that are applied to the class and design characteristics. These measurements permit designers to access their software early in process, making changes that will reduce maintainability and improve the continuing capability of the design. In our paper we studied those metrics using empirical analyses for three package designs for the same software. We also found out that value of RFC doesn’t need to be low for developing a less fault prone software.