Using information retrieval based coupling measures for impact analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
On the relative value of cross-company and within-company data for defect prediction
Empirical Software Engineering
Increasing diversity: Natural language measures for software fault prediction
Journal of Systems and Software
Recommending source code examples via API call usages and documentation
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering
Problems adopting metrics from other disciplines
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
A two-step technique for extract class refactoring
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
An object-oriented high-level design-based class cohesion metric
Information and Software Technology
Programmer-based fault prediction
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Review: Software fault prediction: A literature review and current trends
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Identifying Extract Class refactoring opportunities using structural and semantic cohesion measures
Journal of Systems and Software
Improving object-oriented lack-of-cohesion metric by excluding special methods
SEPADS'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
An exploratory study of identifier renamings
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Identifying method friendships to remove the feature envy bad smell (NIER track)
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Reliability analysis and optimal version-updating for open source software
Information and Software Technology
Improving the applicability of object-oriented class cohesion metrics
Information and Software Technology
Using structural and textual information to capture feature coupling in object-oriented software
Empirical Software Engineering
An empirical investigation on the reusability of design patterns and software packages
Journal of Systems and Software
A fast algorithm to locate concepts in execution traces
SSBSE'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Search based software engineering
A Precise Method-Method Interaction-Based Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Classes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
How much information do software metrics contain?
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools
Information and Software Technology
Are popular classes more defect prone?
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Evaluating defect prediction approaches: a benchmark and an extensive comparison
Empirical Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
Supporting extract class refactoring in eclipse: the ARIES project
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Using structural and semantic information to support software refactoring
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Evaluating the effect of control flow on the unit testing effort of classes: an empirical analysis
Advances in Software Engineering
Concept location using formal concept analysis and information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Risk chain prediction metrics for predicting fault proneness in object oriented systems
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology
Information and Software Technology
Normalizing source code vocabulary to support program comprehension and software quality
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Reusability of open-source program code: a conceptual model and empirical investigation
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using internal quality attributes
Information and Software Technology
An in-depth study of the potentially confounding effect of class size in fault prediction
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An approach to automatically enforce object-oriented constraints
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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High cohesion is a desirable property of software, as it positively impacts understanding, reuse, and maintenance. Currently proposed measures for cohesion in Object-Oriented (OO) software reflect particular interpretations of cohesion and capture different aspects of cohesion. The paper proposes a new measure for the cohesion of classes in an OO software system, based on the analysis of the unstructured information embedded in the source code, such as comments and identifiers. The measure, named the Conceptual Cohesion of Classes (C3), is inspired from the mechanisms used to measure textual coherence in cognitive psychology and computational linguistics. The paper presents the principles and the technology that stand behind the C3 measure. A large case study on three open source software systems is presented, which compares the new measure with an extensive set of existing metrics and uses them to construct models that predict software faults. The case study shows that the novel measure captures different aspects of class cohesion compared to any of the existing cohesion measures. In addition, combining C3 with existing structural cohesion metrics proves to be a better predictor of faulty classes when compared to different combinations of structural cohesion metrics.