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New TCC and LCOM Measures Considering the Write Operations between Class Members

클래스 멤버 사이의 쓰기 연산을 고려한 새로운 TCC 및 LCOM 척도

  • 우균 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 채흥석 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
  • Published : 2005.11.01
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Abstract

Cohesion refers to the degree of the relatedness of the members in a class and it is widely accepted that the higher the cohesion of a module is, the easier the module to understand and maintain. Recently, several cohesion measures have been proposed to measure the cohesiveness of classes in an object-oriented program. In this paper, we propose an approach to improving the existing cohesion measures by considering the impact of write dependencies between class members. We have developed a cohesion measurement tool for supporting our approach and describe a case study performed with a C++ class library.

응집도는 모듈의 구성 요소들 사이의 관련성 정도를 나타내는 척도로서, 응집도가 높을수록 소프트웨어에 대한 이해 및 유지보수가 용이하다고 알려져 있다. 최근에 응집도의 개념을 객체지향 시스템의 클래스에 적용하기 위하여 많은 응집도 척도들이 제안되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 클래스 멤버 간의 쓰기 의존성의 영향을 고려함으로써 기존의 응집도 척도를 개선시킬 수 있음을 소개한다. 본 논문의 기법을 지원하는 도구를 개발하였으며 이 도구를 이용하여 C++ 클래스 라이브러리에 이 기법을 적용한 사례 결과를 소개한다.

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