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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 4 pp 71–77Cite as

Study on Measurement of Class Coupling in Object-Oriented Software

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Class coupling is dependency degree among classes, objects or components in object-oriented systems. It is important characteristic of software quality. This paper analyzes the well-known class coupling measures in detail and depth and indicates their defects. Based on anatomy of dependency among classes or objects, a novel approach weighted CBO is proposed to measure the class coupling to make up the deficiency of the existing measures. The experimental results prove the accuracy and validity of the metric method. The new method provides a guideline and new idea for evaluating class coupling.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China

    Bo Yang

  2. School of Computer and Information, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, 650224, China

    Fangting Zhao

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, People's Republic

    Yuhang Yang

  2. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Maode Ma

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Yang, B., Zhao, F. (2013). Study on Measurement of Class Coupling in Object-Oriented Software. In: Yang, Y., Ma, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 4. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35440-3_10

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