Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system
SSR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability
A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-OrientedSystems
Empirical 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
Theoretical validation of object-oriented lack-of-cohesion metrics
SEPADS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
Measuring the Discriminative Power of Object-Oriented Class Cohesion Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experimental assessment of software metrics using automated refactoring
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
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Class cohesion refers to the extent to which the members of a class are related. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature to indicate class cohesion and a few of them are mathematically validated against the necessary properties of class cohesion. 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 mathematically validate nine class cohesion metrics using class cohesion properties. Results show that the metrics differ considerably in satisfying the cohesion properties; some of them satisfy all properties and others satisfy none.