A comparative study of graph theory-based class cohesion measures

Authors:
Yuming Zhou;Jiangtao Lu;Hongmin Lu Baowen Xu
Affiliations:
Tsinghua University;Guangxi Normal University;Southeast University
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Among a large number of cohesion measures for classes proposed in last decade, many measures abstract a class by an undirected or directed graph, in which the nodes represent the class members and the edges represent the relationships among these members. This paper compares six typical graph theory-based cohesion measures for classes, and states what problems should be addressed during the development of new cohesion measures.