An Effective Implementation of Improved Halstead Metrics for Software Parameters Analysis

The software metrics area has a lack of reports about metrics usage and real applicability of those metrics. In this sense, the main goal of this section is briefing review research in software metrics regarding source code in order to guide the research in software quality measurement. The metrics review is organized in two ages: before 1991, where the main focus was on metrics based on the complexity of the code and after 1992, where the main focus was on metrics based on the concepts of Object Oriented (OO) systems. This paper focus on the specific improvements or enhancements in the halstead metrics in terms of object oriented paradigm.