Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems

Design metrics play an important role to help developers understand the software design aspects which later can be used to improve software quality. This paper provides empirical evidence supporting the roles of object-oriented (OO) coupling and cohesion metrics, using a subset of Chidamber and...

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Main Author:	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	QA76 Computer software
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spelling	iium-160062012-01-22T15:44:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/16006/ Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham QA76 Computer software Design metrics play an important role to help developers understand the software design aspects which later can be used to improve software quality. This paper provides empirical evidence supporting the roles of object-oriented (OO) coupling and cohesion metrics, using a subset of Chidamber and Kemerer OO metrics suite, in predicting the post-delivery defects. The findings, based on various open source systems developed in Java, indicate that, a coupling measure, Coupling between object classes (CBO) is very highly significant in predicting defects while Lack of cohesion metric (LCOM), as a cohesion measure is not significant. Even after controlling for size, CBO metric is still significant as a predictor for postdelivery defects. 2011-12-14 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/16006/1/EMPIRICAL_ANALYSIS_OF_OBJECT-_ORIENTED_COUPLING_AND_COHESION_MEASURES_IN_DETERMINING_THE_QUALITY_OF_OPEN_SOURCE_SYSTEMS.pdf Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham (2011) Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems. In: The 15th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2011), 14-16 December 2011, Dallas, USA. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/pastinfo-758.html
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spellingShingle	QA76 Computer software Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
description	Design metrics play an important role to help developers understand the software design aspects which later can be used to improve software quality. This paper provides empirical evidence supporting the roles of object-oriented (OO) coupling and cohesion metrics, using a subset of Chidamber and Kemerer OO metrics suite, in predicting the post-delivery defects. The findings, based on various open source systems developed in Java, indicate that, a coupling measure, Coupling between object classes (CBO) is very highly significant in predicting defects while Lack of cohesion metric (LCOM), as a cohesion measure is not significant. Even after controlling for size, CBO metric is still significant as a predictor for postdelivery defects.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
author_facet	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
author_sort	Awang Abu Bakar, Normi Sham
title	Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
title_short	Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
title_full	Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
title_fullStr	Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
title_full_unstemmed	Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
title_sort	empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems
publishDate	2011
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Empirical analysis of object-oriented coupling and cohesion measures in determining the quality of open source systems

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