%0 Journal Article %T Effective Implementation of Agile Practices - Object Oriented Metrics Tool to Improve Software Quality %A Veerapaneni Esther Jyothi %A Kaitepalli Srikanth %A K. Nageswara Rao %J International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications %D 2012 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Maintaining the quality of the software is the major challenge in the process of software development.Software inspections which use the methods like structured walkthroughs and formal code reviews involvecareful examination of each and every aspect/stage of software development. In Agile softwaredevelopment, refactoring helps to improve software quality. This refactoring is a technique to improvesoftware internal structure without changing its behaviour. After much study regarding the ways toimprove software quality, our research proposes an object oriented software metric tool called¡°MetricAnalyzer¡±. This tool is tested on different codebases and is proven to be much useful. %K Agile %K Refactoring %K Metrics %K Interpretation %K Advice %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/3412ijsea02.pdf