In the metric suite for Object-Oriented design put forward by Chidamber and Kemerer it is observed that Weyuker property 9 is not satisfied by any of the structural Inheritance Complexity Metrics. The same is also observed for the candidate structural inheritance complexity metric by Brito and Carapuca, Li's inheritance metric suite, Rajnish and Bhattacherjee inheritance metric. This paper...

We present a tool which integrates the Unified Modeling Language with a processoriented technique for component system specification and design. We have transformed the definition of process inheritance into definitions of inheritance of UML diagrams. The definitions of UML diagrams inheritance have been built into the tool to guarantee component system development with correct inheritance of c...