Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system
SSR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability
An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Critical Analysis of Current OO Design Metrics
Software Quality Control
Measuring OO Systems: A Critical Analysis of the MOOD Metrics
TOOLS '99 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
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The requirement to improve software productivity and software quality has promoted the research on software metrics. Encapsulation is a powerful mechanism in Object-Oriented programming and it is critical for building large complex software; which can be maintained and extended. Since the emergence of the Object-Oriented approach to software development, it has been recognized that the development of Object-Oriented metrics to measure the quality of software is a new challenge. Many researchers have already risen to this challenge, most notably Chidamber & Kemerer, Abreu, Lorez and Kidd. But the metrics introduced by the above proponents lack in measuring the encapsulation mechanism. This paper purposes a new metric to measure encapsulation. Encapsulation constitutes both privacy and unity and these two attributes have been taken to purpose the above mentioned metrics. A statistical analysis on EF (Encapsulation Factor) metric is also done in this study.