%0 Journal Article %T An Heuristic Approach To Object Oriented Paradigm %A Deepali Gupta %A Rakesh Kumar %J International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications %D 2011 %I Technopark Publications %X Quality of software is increasingly important and testing related issues are becoming crucial for software. In order to measure and understand quality, it is necessary to relate it to measurable quantities. Heuristics provide a link between sets of abstract design principles and quantitative software metrics. The aim of object oriented software metrics is to predict quality and improve productivity of the software products. Object-orientation (OO) allows software to be structured in a way that helps to manage complexity and change. This paper shows role of heuristics in object oriented software engineering and how object oriented paradigm differentiate from conventional function oriented paradigm. %K Software metrics %K Function-oriented paradigm %K Object-oriented paradigm %K Software quality and Heuristics %U http://ijcta.com/documents/volumes/vol2issue4/ijcta2011020418.pdf