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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chidamber and Kemerer (1994) dened coupling as:
Two classes are coupled when methods declared in one class use methods or instance
variables of the other classes.
This denition also includes coupling based on inheritance. Chidamber and Kemerer
(1994) dened coupling between objects (CBO) as “the count of number of other classes
to which a class is coupled.” The CBO denition given in 1994includes inheritance-based
coupling. For example, consider Figure 3.5, three variables of other classes (class B, class C,
and class D) are used in class A, hence, the value of CBO for class A is 3. Similarly, cla ...
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