A Review of Object-Oriented Coupling and Cohesion Metrics

Software metrics are essential to improve the quality of software during the development process. Coupling and cohesion measures are used in various activities such as impact analysis, assessing the fault proneness of classes, fault prediction, remodularization, identifying of software component, design patterns, assessing software quality etc. Low coupling and high cohesion are better for good software quality. Coupling and cohesion metrics can be applied at the early phase of the software development process. This paper reviews various coupling and cohesion metrics for object-oriented software.