Measuring Functional Cohesion

Measuring Functional Cohesion

Software similarity-based functional cohesion metric

Cohesion is an important factor used in evaluating software design quality and modularity. The cohesion of a module refers to the relatedness of the module components. In software engineering, highly cohesive modules are highly desirable due to their high reusability and maintainability. Cohesion is classified according to levels. Functional cohesion, the strongest level, refers to how closely ...

Efficient Program Slicing Algorithms for Measuring Functional Cohesion and Parallelism

Program slicing is the task of finding all statements in a program that directly or indirectly influence the value of a variable occurrence. The set of statements that can affect the value of a variable at some point in a program is called a program slice. In several software engineering applications, such as program debugging and measuring program cohesion and parallelism, several slices are c...

Measuring Software Component Reusability by Coupling and Cohesion Metrics

This paper proposes a set of new static metrics of coupling and cohesion developed to assess the reusability of Java components retrieved from the Internet by a software component search engine. These metrics differ from the majority of established metrics in three respects: they measure the degree to which entities are coupled or resemble each other, they quantitatively take account of indirec...

Program slices as an abstraction for cohesion measurement

The basis for measuring many attributes in the physical world, such as size and mass, is fairly obvious when compared to the measurement of software attributes. Software has a very complex structure, and this makes it di cult to de ne meaningful measures that actually quantify attributes of interest. Program slices provide an abstraction that can be used to de ne important software attributes t...