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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition
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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 44m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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DEFINITION
Cohesion
An attribute of a unit of
high-level or of detail-level
design that identifies the
degree to which the ele-
ments within that unit
belong or are related
together.
8.3 “Good”Design Attributes 219
Easy to test
Easy to integrate
Easy to code
In our discussions earlier in this chapter describing Halstead, McCabe,
Henry-Kafura, and Card and Glass metrics, we alluded to intramodular
and intermodular complexities as a factor that relates to software quality.
Is there some more fundamental way to characterize a good design besides
listing the different “easy to _____” items? They themselves may not be the
characteristics of a good design and are ...
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ISBN: 9780763785345