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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
Transactions ID Number: 42-595
Full Name: Sim-hui Tee
Position: Assistant Professor
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Sex: Male
Address: Persiaran Multimedia, Cyberjaya 63100
Country: MALAYSIA
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E-mail address: teesimhui@hotmail.com
Other E-mails: shtee@mmu.edu.my
Title of the Paper: IELCOM: A Metric for Inner Class
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Sim-hui Tee, Rodziah Atan, Abdul Azim Abd Ghani
Email addresses of all the authors: teesimhui@hotmail.com,rodziah@fsktm.upm.edu.my,azim@fsktm.upm.edu.my
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: Inner class is a special variety of class declared within another class. It functions as a helper class to aid the outer class that contains it. Usually inner classes carry out a subset of tasks of its outer class. To date, there is no special cohesion metric tailored for inner class. In current practice, the cohesion of inner classes is measured using the regular class cohesion metrics. We have found out that the existing practice does not properly reflect the cohesion of inner classes because their role as helper classes is not evaluated. Furthermore, the existing cohesion metrics do not measure the cohesion of inner classes per se. In this paper, the cohesion of inner classes is measured in term of the single functionality it has fostered for the outer class as a whole. This paper presents a novel twofold approach in measuring the in-bound cohesion and out-bound cohesion for inner classes. Our approach enables the software practitioners to recognize the!
cohesion of inner classes by evaluating the functional relationship between inner and outer classes together.
Keywords: Inner classes, Class cohesion, Software metrics, Object-oriented software
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