Cohesion as changeability indicator in object-oriented systems

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 39-46

  Kabaili, Hind ^a   Keller, Rudolf K ^a   Lustman, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

C++ language; Change impact; Changeability; Cohesion; Correlation; Software metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

CHANGE IMPACT MODEL; SOFTWARE CHANGEABILITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0035784611     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2001.914966     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Lionel C. Briand, John Daly, and Jurgen Wust. A unified framework for cohesion measurement in object-oriented systems. In Empirical Software Engineering - An International Journal, 3(1), pages 67-117, 1998.
2. James M. Bieman and Byung-Kyoo Kang. Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR'95), pages 259-262, Seattle, WA, April 1995.
3. M. A. Chaumun. Change impact analysis in object-oriented Systems: Conceptual Model and Application to C++. Master's thesis, Université de Montréal, Canada, November 1998.
4. M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, and Francois Lustman. A change impact model for changeability assessment in object-oriented systems. In Proceedings of the Third Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pages 130-138, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 1999.
5. M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, Francois Lustman, and Guy St-Denis. Design properties and object-oriented software changeability. In Proceedings of the Fourth Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pages 45-54, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2000. IEEE.
6. S. R. Chidamber and C. F. Kemerer. A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 6, pages 476-493, June 1994.
7. Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, and Chris F. Kemerer. Managerial use of metrics for object-oriented software: An exploratory analysis. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24(8):629-639, August 1998.
8. Heung Seok Chae and Yong Rae Kwon. A cohesion measure for classes in object-oriented systems, In Proceedings of the Fifth international Software Metrics Symposium, pages 158-166, Bethesda, MD, November 1998.
9. Martin Hitz and Behzad Montazeri. Measuring coupling and cohesion in object-oriented systems. Proc. Int. Symposium on Applied Corporate Computing, pages 25-27, October, 1995.
10. Rudolf K. Keller, Reinhard Schauer, Sebastien Robitaille, and Patrick Page. Pattern-based reverse engineering of design components. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 226-235, Los Angeles, CA, May 1999. IEEE.
11. Wei Li and Sallie Henry. Object-oriented metrics that predict maintainability. In Journal of Systems and Software, 23:111-122, February, 1993.
12. TakeFive GmbH, Salzburg, Austria. SNiFF+ Documentation Set, 1999. Available online at: .
13. Andre Weinand, Erich Gamma, and Rudolf Marty. Design and implementation of ET++, a seamless object-oriented application framework. In Structured Programming, 10(2): 63-87, April-June, 1989.
14. Xforms Library. Graphical user interface for X. Documentation Set, 1997. Available online at .
15. Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine. Structured Design. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1979.