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The Conceptual Coupling Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems

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Denys Poshyvanyk,

Andrian MarcusAuthors Info & Claims

ICSM '06: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

Pages 469 - 478

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2006.67

Published: 24 September 2006 Publication History

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Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analysis, ripple effects of changes, changeability, etc. Many coupling measures for object-oriented (OO) software have been proposed, each of them capturing specific dimensions of coupling. This paper presents a new set of coupling measures for OO systems - named conceptual coupling, based on the semantic information obtained from the source code, encoded in identifiers and comments. A case study on open source software systems is performed to compare the new measures with existing structural coupling measures. The case study shows that the conceptual coupling captures new dimensions of coupling, which are not captured by existing coupling measures; hence it can be used to complement the existing metrics.

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Capiluppi AAjienka NAli NArzoky MCounsell SDestefanis GMiron ANagaria BNeykova RShepperd MSwift STucker ALi JJaccheri LDingsøyr TChitchyan R(2020)Using the Lexicon from Source Code to Determine Application DomainProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/3383219.3383231(110-119)Online publication date: 15-Apr-2020
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The Conceptual Coupling Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
      2. System management
        Quality assurance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
    2. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks

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Capiluppi AAjienka NAli NArzoky MCounsell SDestefanis GMiron ANagaria BNeykova RShepperd MSwift STucker ALi JJaccheri LDingsøyr TChitchyan R(2020)Using the Lexicon from Source Code to Determine Application DomainProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/3383219.3383231(110-119)Online publication date: 15-Apr-2020
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