The building of highly cohesive classes is an important objective in object-oriented design.
Class cohesion refers to the relatedness of the class members, and it indicates one …

Context Class maintainability is the likelihood that a class can be easily modified. Before
releasing an object-oriented software system, it is impossible to know with certainty when …

CONTEXT: Class cohesion is an important object-oriented software quality attribute.
Assessing class cohesion during the object-oriented design phase is one important way to …

Several object-oriented cohesion metrics have been proposed in the literature. These
metrics aim to measure the relationship between class members, namely, methods and …

CONTEXT: Refactoring is a maintenance task that refers to the process of restructuring
software source code to enhance its quality without affecting its external behavior. Inspecting …

Many complex networked systems exhibit natural divisions of network nodes. Each division,
or community, is a densely connected subgroup. Such community structure not only helps …

Context Software quality attributes are assessed by employing appropriate metrics.
However, the choice of such metrics is not always obvious and is further complicated by the …

CONTEXT: Several metrics have been proposed to measure the extent to which class
members are related. Connectivity-based class cohesion metrics measure the degree of …

Necessity for a Productive software has been culminating and Object-Oriented Design
technique is providing solution to this as it is the most powerful mechanism for develo** …

Class reuse-proneness is the likelihood that a class can be reused and is a key quality
characteristic in object-oriented design. Because it is clearly impossible to know with …