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

Woo, Gyun (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Chae, Heung-Seok (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.11, 2005 , pp. 1036-1046 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
object-oriented systems; class cohesion; write dependency;
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