Xu, J., Ho, D., Capretz, L.F.  An Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics for Fault Prediction, Journal of Computer Science, Vol 4, No 7, 2008.

   [Abstract] Object-Oriented design has become a dominant method in software industry and many design metrics of object-oriented programs have been proposed for quality prediction, but there is no well-accepted statement on how significant those metrics are. In this study, empirical analysis is carried out to validate object-oriented design metrics for defects estimation.