Coupling and cohesion measures for evaluation of component reusability

Authors:
G. Gui;P. D. Scott
Affiliations:
University of Essex, Colchester, UK;University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper provides an account of new measures of coupling and cohesion developed to assess the reusability of Java components retrieved from the internet by a search engine. These measures differ from the majority of established metrics in two respects: they reflect the degree to which entities are coupled or resemble each other, and they take account of indirect couplings or similarities. An empirical comparison of the new measures with eight established metrics shows the new measures are consistently superior at ranking components according to their reusability.