Design-Level Cohesion Measures: Derivation, Comparison, and Applications

Authors:
Byung-Kyoo Kang;James M. Bieman
Affiliations:
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Venue:
COMPSAC '96 Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Computer Software and Applications
Year:
1996

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Abstract

Cohesion was first developed to predict properties of implementations created from a given design. Unfortunately, cohesion, as originally defined, could not be objectively assessed, while more recently developed objective cohesion measures depend on code-level information. We show that association-based and slice-based approaches can be used to measure cohesion using only design-level information. Our design-level cohesion measures are formally defined, can be readily implemented, and can support software design, maintenance, and restructuring.