Derived Classes is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.
Derived Classes
API ID: CountClassDerivedAlso Known As: Number of Children (NOC)
Languages: Basic, C#, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, Web
Targets: Classes
Number of immediate subclasses.
(i.e. the number of classes one level down the inheritance tree from this class).
Also known as Chidamber & Kemerer - Number of Children (NOC).
Targets By Language:
- Basic: Class, Struct
- C#: Class, Struct
- C++: Class, Struct, Union
- Java: Class, Interface
- Pascal: Class, Interface
- Python: Class
- Web: PHP Class, PHP Interface
- This metric can be disabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Object Orientated" with the "Show inheritance metrics" option.