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On Inter-Method and Intra-Method Object-Oriented Class Cohesion

On Inter-Method and Intra-Method Object-Oriented Class Cohesion

Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam, Sheryl Duggins, Challa Bonja
Copyright: © 2009 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 18
ISSN: 1935-570X|EISSN: 1935-5718|ISSN: 1935-570X|EISBN13: 9781615203420|EISSN: 1935-5718|DOI: 10.4018/jitsa.2009010102
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Tsui, Frank, et al. "On Inter-Method and Intra-Method Object-Oriented Class Cohesion." IJITSA vol.2, no.1 2009: pp.15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsa.2009010102

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Tsui, F., Karam, O., Duggins, S., & Bonja, C. (2009). On Inter-Method and Intra-Method Object-Oriented Class Cohesion. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA), 2(1), 15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsa.2009010102

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Tsui, Frank, et al. "On Inter-Method and Intra-Method Object-Oriented Class Cohesion," International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) 2, no.1: 15-32. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsa.2009010102

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Abstract

Cohesion has been a topic of interest since structured design in the 1970’s. Cohesion may also be viewed as a characterization of a system attribute. Today, there are numerous researchers continuing this work into object-oriented designs. Most of the current research has focused on the interaction of methods within a class, the inter-method cohesion. In this paper, we consider both the inter-method cohesion and the intra-method cohesion of a class. We have utilized the concept of program slice (Weiser, 1981) and have extended Functional Cohesion (Bieman & Ott, 1994) to devise a new intra-method cohesion metric, ITRA-C, for measuring cohesion of each method within the class. This intra-method cohesion is based on the notion of effects and chaining in an effect-slice. We further combine the (inter-method, intra-method)-tuple into one combined Class Cohesion, which provides a quick view of bands of cohesion for categorizing classes.

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