This work explains the use of object-oriented software product metrics with
their thresholds and how they could be incorporated into a reverse engineering tool
that visualizes the architectural components of a software system. Visualizing.
Object-Oriented C++ ( VOO++), reverse engineering tool that visualizes C++ objectoriented
source code, is enhanced and reproduced to become a Visualizing and
Measuring C++ ( VMCPP) tool that visualizes and measures object-oriented C++
files. VMCPP assists the software developer in extracting and interpreting the
components of a software system. Unified Modeling Language (UML) class
diagrams are produced to graphically represent the classes involved in implementing
a software system. Thresholds are used within VMCPP to separate the extracted
metrics values into normal values and critical values
