James M. Bieman
ABSTRACT
We define and apply two new measures of object-oriented class cohesion to a reasonably large C++ system. We find that most of the classes are quite cohesive, but that the classes that are reused more frequently via inheritance exhibit clearly lower cohesion.
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- Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system
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