Context Coupling relations reflect the dependencies between software entities and can be
used to assess the quality of a program. For this reason, a vast amount of them has been …

Coupling and Cohesion are two fundamental concepts that can be applied to design better
modular object-oriented software. This study aims at reviewing existing research on …

Object orientation has gained a wide adoption in the software development community. To
this end, different metrics that can be utilized in measuring and improving the quality of …

Over the last several years, cloud computing has imposed as a major paradigm in software
development by providing computer resources over the Internet. Among various cloud …

A defining, unique aspect of distributed systems lies in interprocess communication (IPC)
through which distributed components interact and collaborate toward the holistic system …

Abstract In Software Engineering (SE), metrics are used for detecting software design
problems (bad smells) like the large-class bad smell, where a lot of different metrics were …

Many scholars have reported that the adoption of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) in the
industry is still marginal. Real-life case studies, completed with convincing empirical data …

The interaction between the classes or within the classes shows the complexity of the
design. For one smaller problem, there may be more than one software design but who will …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) are being increasingly used in complex and distributed
applications development. Such applications should satisfy the requirements of users in …

The importance of object-oriented software metrics is increasing day by day to evaluate and
predict the quality of software. Coupling is one of the object-oriented metrics. It is a …