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A Review of Coupling and Cohesion Measurement in OO Systems Using Program Slicing

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This paper gives an overview of various studies regarding static and dynamic Cohesion and Coupling measurement. This study has extrapolated that static measures are insufficient to measure dynamic coupling and cohesion and in order to obtain accurate results dynamic measures are required. Further the current work dwells into the fact that coupling and cohesion calculated with the help of dynamic program slicing yields better results than those calculated by conventional means. One approach to obtain static or dynamic program slicing is making dependence graphs of the system. We have also performed a comparative study on the various dependence graph required to obtain Cohesion and Coupling measurement using static and dynamic Program Slicing.

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  1. GNDEC, Ludhiana, India

    Sunint Kaur Khalsa

  2. DCRUST, Murthal, India

    Rajesh Kumar Bhatia

  3. NIT Kurukshetra, India

    Jitender Kumar Chhabra

  4. Thapar University, Patiala, India

    Maninder Singh

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    Sumeet Dua

  2. Department of Information Systems, College of Engineering and Information, Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, 2125, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Aryya Gangopadhyay

  3. Department of Computer Science, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Khalsa, S.K., Bhatia, R.K., Chhabra, J.K., Singh, M. (2012). A Review of Coupling and Cohesion Measurement in OO Systems Using Program Slicing. In: Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (eds) Information Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_18

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