DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL OBJECT ORIENTED COHESION METRIC | ||||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||||
| Article 21, Volume 41, No 3, May and June 2013, Page 1175-1188 PDF (409.39 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114787 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| S. A. Salem | ||||
| Department of Electronics, Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Class cohesion is considered as one of the most important software quality assessment. Unfortunately, most of cohesion metrics that have been developed do not consider the different intersections among class elements in measuring class cohesion. This paper introduces a novel class cohesion metric which considers the different cohesion intersections. The proposed cohesion metric is tested on more than 35K classes from 16 open-source projects. Experimental results show that the proposed cohesion metric achieves a higher discrimination power along with a vast difference compared with other competitive and well known cohesion metrics. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use the proposed metric for evaluating the software design quality. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Object-Oriented Metrics; Class Cohesion; Software Quality | ||||
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