:Author:       Manuel Pichler
:Copyright:    All rights reserved
:Description:
:Keywords:     DIT, Depth of Inheritance, Chidamber & Kemerer, Inheritance,
               Distance, Path to root, root, leafs

Inheritance reduces redundancy in the code and thereby increases its
efficiency. DIT is the number of ancestor classes that can affect a
class. The deeper a class is in the hierarchy, the higher the degree
of methods inheritance, making it more complex to predict its behavior.

Thresholds
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5

Bibliography
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.. [#ckoom] http://www.iiitd.ac.in/PhD2010/papers/SW_Paper2.pdf

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, A Metrics Suite for Object
  Oriented Design, Chidamber & Kemerer, 1994
