Theoretical Exploration for the Impact of Accounting for Special Methods in Connectivity-Based Cohesion Measurement
References:
[1] Al Dallal, J. and Briand, L., A Precise method-method interaction-based
cohesion metric for object-oriented classes, ACM Transactions on
Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2012, Vol. 21, No.
2, pp. 8:1-8:34.
[2] Al Dallal, J. Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using
internal quality attributes, Information and Software Technology, 2013,
Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 2028-2048.
[3] Bieman, J. and Kang, B., Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented
system, Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability,
Seattle, Washington, United States, 1995, pp. 259-262.
[4] Badri, L. and Badri, M., A Proposal of a new class cohesion criterion: an
empirical study, Journal of Object Technology, 3(4), 2004, pp. 145-159.
[5] Fernández, L., and Peña, R., A sensitive metric of class cohesion,
International Journal of Information Theories and Applications, 13(1),
2006, pp. 82-91.
[6] Bonja, C. and Kidanmariam, E., Metrics for class cohesion and
similarity between methods, Proceedings of the 44th Annual ACM
Southeast Regional Conference, Melbourne, Florida, 2006, pp. 91-95.
[7] HChae, H.S., Kwon, Y. R., and Bae, D. A cohesion measure for objectoriented
classes, Software—Practice & Experience, 30(12), 2000,
pp.1405-1431.
[8] Al Dallal, J., Fault prediction and the discriminative powers of
connectivity-based object-oriented class cohesion metrics, Information
and Software Technology, 2012, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 396-416.
[9] Yang, X., Research on Class Cohesion Measures, M.S. Thesis,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast
University, 2002.
[10] Al Dallal, J., A design-based cohesion metric for object-oriented classes,
International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, 2007, Vol.
1, No. 3, pp. 195-200.
[11] Al Dallal, J. and Briand, L., An object-oriented high-level design-based
class cohesion metric, Information and Software Technology, 2010, Vol.
52, No. 12, pp. 1346-1361.
[12] Al Dallal, J., Improving object-oriented lack-of-cohesion metric by
excluding special methods, proceedings of the 10th WSEAS
International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and
Distributed Systems (SEPADS 2011), Cambridge, UK, February 2011.
[13] Counsell, S., Swift, S., and Crampton, J., The interpretation and utility of
three cohesion metrics for object-oriented design, ACM Transactions on
Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 15, No. 2,
2006, pp.123-149.
[14] Briand, L. C., Wüst, J., and Lounis, H., Replicated Case Studies for
Investigating Quality Factors in Object-Oriented Designs, Empirical
Software Engineering, 6(1), 2001, pp. 11-58.
[15] Marcus, M., Poshyvanyk, D., and Ferenc, R., Using the conceptual
cohesion of classes for fault prediction in object-oriented systems, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, 34(2), 2008, pp. 287-300.
[16] Al Dallal, J., The impact of inheritance on the internal quality attributes
of java classes, Kuwait Journal of Science, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 2A, pp.
131-154.
[17] Al Dallal, J., Incorporating transitive relations in low-level design-based
class cohesion measurement, Software: Practice and Experience, 2013,
Vol. 43. No. 6, pp. 685-704.
[18] Al Dallal, J., Constructing models for predicting extract subclass
refactoring opportunities using object-oriented quality metrics,
Information and Software Technology, 2012, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 1125-
1141.
[19] Al Dallal, J. and Morasca, S., Predicting object-oriented class reusability
using internal quality attributes, Empirical Software Engineering, Vol.
19, No. 4, 2014, pp. 775-821.
[20] Al Dallal, J., The impact of accounting for special methods in the
measurement of object-oriented class cohesion on refactoring and fault
prediction activities, Journal of Systems and Software, 2012, Vol. 85,
No. 5, pp. 1042-1057.
[21] Al Dallal, J., Measuring the discriminative power of object-oriented
class cohesion metrics, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
2011, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 788-804.
[22] Al Dallal, J., Improving the applicability of object-oriented class
cohesion metrics, Information and Software Technology, 2011, Vol. 53,
No. 9, pp. 914-928.
[23] Al Dallal, J., Transitive-based object-oriented lack-of-cohesion metric,
Procedia Computer Science (Elsevier), Volume 3, 2011, pp. 1581-1587.
[24] Al Dallal, J., Software similarity-based functional cohesion metric, IET
Software, 2009, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 46-57.
[25] Al Dallal, J., The effects of incorporating special methods into cohesion
measurement on class instantiation reuse-proneness prediction, IET
Software, in press, 2014.
