DMC: A more precise cohesion measure for classes

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 167-180

  Wang, Jianmin ^a   Zhou, Yuming ^a   Wen, Lijie ^a   Chen, Yujian ^a   Lu, Hongmin ^b   Xu, Baowen ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Class; Class element dependence graph; Cohesion; Measure; Object oriented system

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CLASS ELEMENT DEPENDENCE GRAPH; COHESION; MEASURE; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 11344287156     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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