Indirect Coupling As a Criteria for Modularity
ACoM '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques
Automatic identification of key classes in a software system using webmining techniques
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Using information retrieval based coupling measures for impact analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
Defining coupling metrics among classes in an OWL ontology
IEA/AIE'10 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Industrial engineering and other applications of applied intelligent systems - Volume Part II
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Coupling is considered by many to be an important concept in measuring design quality. There is still much to be learned about which aspects of coupling affect design quality or other external attributes of software. Much of the existing work concentrates on direct coupling, that is, forms of coupling that exists between entities that are directly related to each other. A form of coupling that has so far received little attention is indirect coupling, that is, coupling between entities that are not directly related. What little discussion there is in the literature suggests that any form of indirect coupling is simple the transitive closure of a form of direct coupling. We will demonstrate that this is not the case, that there are forms of indirect coupling that cannot be represented in this way, and suggest ways to measure it. We will present a tool that identifies a particular form of indirect coupling that is integrated in the Eclipse IDE.