Measuring Functional Cohesion
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1994
Abstract
We examine the functional cohesion of procedures using a data slice abstraction. Our analysis identifies the data tokens that lie on more than one slice as the “glue” that binds separate components together. Cohesion is measured in terms of the relative number of glue tokens, tokens that lie on more than one data slice, and super-glue tokens, tokens that lie on all data slices in a procedure, and the adhesiveness of the tokens. The intuition and measurement scale factors are demonstrated through a set of abstract transformations. © 1994, IEEE.
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Recommended Citation
Bieman, J.
(1994).
Measuring Functional Cohesion.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
20(8), 644-657.
http://doi.org/10.1109/32.310673
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