Improvement of Software Quality Attributes in Object Oriented Analysis and Design Phase Using Goal-Question-Metric Paradigm

Hitesh Rajput, Lalit Kumar Singh

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DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2011.46039                

Abstract

In a competitive business landscape, large organizations such as insurance companies and banks are under high pres-sure to innovate, improvise and distinguish their products and services while continuing to reduce the time-to market for new product introductions. Traditional approaches to software reliability modeling for such software are black box-based. Bad structure or model again can lead us to lower down these non functional properties. The basic constructs of the model are objects. We will not deal about the identification of the objects, as may be referred in many books, but how to model those objects. The objective of this paper is to provide a philosophical approach, using Goal-Question-Metric paradigm, to structure or model the identified objects of software system, in better way to improve the quality of the software.

Keywords

Software Reliability, OOAD, Class, Object, Association, GQM, MFC

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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