期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Communication Networks
电子版ISSN：2249-5789
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：310-317
出版社：Technopark Publications
摘要：While often defined in informal ways, software cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. Cohesion measurement has been used for quality assessment, fault proneness prediction, software modularization, etc. Existing approaches to cohesion measurement in software are largely based on the structural information of the source code, such as attribute references in methods. These measures reflect particular interpretations of cohesion and try to capture different aspects of cohesion and no single cohesion metric or suite is accepted as standard measurement for cohesion. The paper proposes a new set of measures for the cohesion of individual classes within an software system, based on the analysis of the semantic information embedded in the source code, such as comments and identifiers. A case study on open source software is presented, which compares the new measures with an extensive set of existing metrics. The differences and similarities among the approaches and results are discussed and analyzed
关键词：Fault Prediction; Object Oriented Software; Conceptual Cohesion of Classes (C3).
