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A comparative study of graph theory-based class cohesion measures

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 29, Issue 2

Page 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979767

Published: 01 March 2004 Publication History

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Among a large number of cohesion measures for classes proposed in last decade, many measures abstract a class by an undirected or directed graph, in which the nodes represent the class members and the edges represent the relationships among these members. This paper compares six typical graph theory-based cohesion measures for classes, and states what problems should be addressed during the development of new cohesion measures.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 29, Issue 2

March 2004

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