OBJECT ORIENTED MAINTAINABILITY AND TESTABILITY MEASUREMENT USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS

Applying AHP to measure object-oriented design quality has been verified. The AHP is utilized in two stages of measurement process. First, in defining relative quality based on metric values that has been converted to AHP's pairwise comparison scheme; second, in expert judgment verification by answering pairwise preference questionnaire. First stage measurement is conducted based on two sets of object-oriented metrics, i.e. MOOD and MOOSE. The results of quality rank over a number of OO design samples are proven consistent by applying MOOD and MOOSE as the criteria. Moreover, experts' judgment on relative quality of selected samples supports the robustness of AHP in measuring maintainability and testability of OO programs.