Client based object-oriented cohesion metrics

: Mäkelä S, Leppänen V

: C.K. Vhang

: 2007

: Computer Software and Applications Conference

: Proceedings of 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007)

: COMPSAC 2007: THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE, VOL II, PROCEEDINGS

: P INT COMP SOFTW APP

: 743

: 748

: 6

: 978-0-7695-2870-0

: 0730-3157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2007.90

We propose forming cohesion graphs between the clients of a class and its member variables. Our approach complements the internal cohesion view with external views based on the external usage of class properties. We provide results for three popular open-source projects indicating our external cohesion measure to give much more meaningful results.

Engineering and technology