Measuring software coupling

  • Authors:
  • Jarallah S. Alghamdi

  • Affiliations:
  • Information & Computer Science Department, King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • SEPADS'07 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Coupling is one of two fundamental attributes of software that significantly impact system quality. This work presents a method for measuring coupling in a software system using two matrices. The coupling calculation is performed in two major steps. The first step creates a matrix that captures the nature of the underlying software system. The second step produces a matrix that indicates the degree of coupling between each pair of system components, and also measures the overall system coupling.