Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design
OOPSLA '91 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system
SSR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability
Defining and Validating Measures for Object-Based High-Level Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Exploring the relationship between design measures and software quality in object-oriented systems
Journal of Systems and Software
A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-OrientedSystems
Empirical Software Engineering
Replicated Case Studies for Investigating Quality Factorsin Object-Oriented Designs
Empirical Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Novel Approach to Measuring Class Cohesion Based on Dependence Analysis
ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
The interpretation and utility of three cohesion metrics for object-oriented design
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Metrics for class cohesion and similarity between methods
Proceedings of the 44th annual Southeast regional conference
Validating object-oriented class cohesion metrics mathematically
SEPADS'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
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
Improving the applicability of object-oriented class cohesion metrics
Information and Software Technology
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Class cohesion refers to the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods. Software developers use class cohesion measure to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly designed classes. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature, and a few of them are theoretically validated against the class cohesion necessary properties. Metrics that violate class cohesion properties are not well defined, and their utility as indictors of the relatedness of class members is questionable. The purpose of this paper is to theoretically validate six lack-of-cohesion based metrics. Results show that most of the metrics considered satisfy the majority of the class cohesion necessary properties.