Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system

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Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system

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Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 259 - 262

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-739-1

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James M. Bieman	Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Byung-Kyoo Kang	Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We define and apply two new measures of object-oriented class cohesion to a reasonably large C++ system. We find that most of the classes are quite cohesive, but that the classes that are reused more frequently via inheritance exhibit clearly lower cohesion.

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