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Response to ‘Comments on: A cohesion measure for object‐oriented classes’
Author(s) -
Chae HeungSeok,
Kwon YongRae,
Bae DooHwan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.414
Subject(s) - monotonic function , property (philosophy) , cohesion (chemistry) , class (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , interpretation (philosophy) , mathematics , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language , epistemology , chemistry , philosophy , mathematical analysis , organic chemistry
Indicating that CBMC does not satisfy the monotonic property in terms of the number of interactions, Xu and Zhou proposed an augmented definition of CBMC by adopting cut set instead of glue methods. The augmented CBMC clearly satisfies the monotonic property. However, CBMC is designed to overcome the problem with respect to the number of interactions and, therefore, focuses on the interaction pattern, especially, member connectivity. Consequently, it does not make sense to mention the monotonic property of CBMC with respect to interaction number. Moreover, the notion of glue methods allows several interpretations on the design quality of a class. However, that meaningful interpretation is not possible for the augmented definition due to the removal of the notion of glue methods. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.