DocumentCode
2702199
Title
An Empirical Study of Fan-In and Fan-Out in Java OSS
Author
Nasseri, E. ; Counsell, S. ; Tempero, E.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
fYear
2010
fDate
24-26 May 2010
Firstpage
36
Lastpage
41
Abstract
Coupling is a well researched topic in the Object-Oriented (OO) research community and its influence on class cohesion is well understood. In this paper, we present an empirical study exploring the effect of method calling on class cohesion using two coupling metrics, namely fan-in and fan-out. Three Java, open-source systems (OSS) were used as a basis of the study. A small number of classes were found to account for the vast majority of fan-in and fan-out. We also found the impact of fan-out on class cohesion to be higher than that of fan-in. Classes containing fan-out tended to have lower cohesion than those containing fan-in.
Keywords
Application software; Computer science; Conference management; Data mining; Engineering management; Information technology; Java; Mathematics; Software engineering; Technology management; Coupling; cohesion; empirical;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), 2010 Eighth ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location
Montreal, QC, Canada
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-4075-7
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-7337-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SERA.2010.15
Filename
5489095
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