Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition

8.4 OO Design Metrics

In this section we explore how the earlier notion of keeping the design simple through decomposition, strong cohesion, and loose coupling is affected, if any, by the OO design and programming paradigm. Although there are several important concepts in OO, including class, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism, there is really one central theme. That theme involves classes, how these classes are interrelated to each other, and how the classes interact with each other. A class is just a software entity that we want to, once again, keep simple through strong cohesion. The interrelationship and interaction among the classes should be kept simple through loose coupling. Thus the good, desirable design attributes have not ...