The Conceptual Coupling Metrics for Object （国际患者安全分类的概念性耦合度量对象）.pdf

The Conceptual Coupling Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems Denys Poshyvanyk, Andrian Marcus Department of Computer Science Wayne State University Detroit Michigan 48202 313 577 5408 denys@, amarcus@ Abstract bugs from other classes; these classes tend to have an increased architectural importance and thus need to be Coupling in software has been linked with identified. Coupling measures help in such endeavors, maintainability and existing metrics are used as and most of them are based on some form of predictors of external software quality attributes such dependency analysis, based on the available source as fault-proneness, impact analysis, ripple effects of code or design information. The number of dimensions changes, changeability, etc. Many coupling measures captured by the measures is lower than the number of for object-oriented (OO) software have been proposed, proposed coupling measures [10], which reflects the each of them capturing specific dimensions of coupling. fact that many of these measures are based on This paper presents a new set of coupling measures comparable hypothesis and use similar information for for OO systems – named conceptual coupling, based on