A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-OrientedSystems
Empirical Software Engineering
A Technique for Mutation of Java Objects
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Improving Cohesion Metrics for Classes by Considering Dependent Instance Variables
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Slice-Based Cohesion Metrics and Software Intervention
WCRE '04 Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
On the Use of Mutation Faults in Empirical Assessments of Test Case Prioritization Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Class cohesion is a measure of software quality and maintainability. A highly cohesive class implies that its modules are functionally coherent and integrated. To date, there are varying cohesion metrics that measure class cohesion from different perspectives. These metrics use different computation in the evaluation of class cohesion. Novice software developers have no access to the class cohesion of a particular class if they are not familiar with these metrics. In this paper, we provide a quick technique to measure class cohesion without using complicated calculation. We delimit our technique to measure class cohesion in term of attribute sharing and method invocation. We contend that the observation of the impact of mutant methods provides a quick judgement on the cohesion status. The proposed approach enables novice software developers to quickly evaluate the cohesion status of a class