IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using information retrieval to support design of incremental change of software
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Dynamic analysis of Ada programs for comprehension and quality measurement
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM annual international conference on SIGAda annual international conference
Using information retrieval based coupling measures for impact analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
Effects of dependency injection on maintainability
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Recommending source code examples via API call usages and documentation
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering
An exploratory study of identifier renamings
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Applying a dynamic threshold to improve cluster detection of LSI
Science of Computer Programming
Using structural and textual information to capture feature coupling in object-oriented software
Empirical Software Engineering
A fast algorithm to locate concepts in execution traces
SSBSE'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Search based software engineering
Assessing maintainability metrics in software architectures using COSMIC and UML
ICCSA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
Risk chain prediction metrics for predicting fault proneness in object oriented systems
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology
A comparative study of static CIA techniques
Proceedings of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware
Information and Software Technology
An empirical study on the developers' perception of software coupling
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Normalizing source code vocabulary to support program comprehension and software quality
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Role of aspect-oriented approach in dynamic adaptability
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Improving software modularization via automated analysis of latent topics and dependencies
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analysis, ripple effects of changes, changeability, etc. Many coupling measures for object-oriented (OO) software have been proposed, each of them capturing specific dimensions of coupling. This paper presents a new set of coupling measures for OO systems - named conceptual coupling, based on the semantic information obtained from the source code, encoded in identifiers and comments. A case study on open source software systems is performed to compare the new measures with existing structural coupling measures. The case study shows that the conceptual coupling captures new dimensions of coupling, which are not captured by existing coupling measures; hence it can be used to complement the existing metrics.