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Prediction of fault-proneness at early phase in object-oriented development Toshihiro Kamiya?, Shinji Kusumoto? and Katsuro Inoue?? ? Osaka University ?Nara Institute of Science and Technology Background Complexity metrics are used to estimate fault-proneness of software component. According to the value of the metrics, we can allocate the effort of review/testing to the fault-prone component. Chidamber and Kemerer’s metrics are the representative complexity metrics for object-oriented software. Chidamber and Kemerer’s metrics[1] CK metrics evaluate complexity of classes from the following three viewpoints: Inheritance complexity ? DIT (Depth of inheritance tree) ? NOC (Number of children) Coupling complexity ? RFC（Response for a class ? CBO(Coupling between object-class) Class internal complexity ? WMC(Weighted methods par class ? LCOM(Lack of cohesion in method) [1] S.R. Chidamber and C.F. Kemerer, A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design, IEEE Trans. on software eng., vol., 20, No. 6 (1994) 476-492. Evaluation of CK metrics Several research studies evaluate the usefulness of CK metrics. ? Chidamber and Kemerer confirm that CK metrics satisfy Weyuker’s properties [1]. ? Basili et. al. empirically evaluated that CK metric suit is better predictor of fault-proneness of class than traditional code metrics [2]. ? Briand et. al. discussed several design metrics that include CK Metrics [3]. [2] Basili, V. R., Briand, L. C., and Mélo, W. L., A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng. Vol. 20, No. 22, (1996) 751-761. [3] Briand, L. C., Daly, J.W., and Wüst, J.K., A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems, IEEE Trans. on software eng., vol.25, No.1, (1999) 91-121. Difficulty in applying CK metrics to design In previous researches, CK metrics were applied to source code. Because some of CK metrics need information such as algorithm or call-relationship, w