Run Time Coupling Measurement in a Distributed Object Oriented Systems
Shivnath Babu · 2015
Software metrics play a key role in the planning and in the control of software development projects. The Estimation of Coupling helps in the development of quality Software Products as well as in the maintenance. They reason out the structural complexity of software and to envisage the quality of the Software Product. Quality attributes such as Fault-proneness, ripple effect of changes and changeability are well predicted by coupling measures. Coupling or Dependency states the degree to which each individual program module relies on each one of the other modules. Coupling measures portray the static dependency among the classes in an object-oriented system. Dynamic couplings are not taken into an account due to polymorphism and may notably take too lightly the intricacy of software and misjudge the need for code inspection, testing and debugging. Most probably this results in hapless predictive exactness of the quality models that utilize static coupling measurement. In the proposed method, there are three steps such as Instrumentation process, Post processing and Coupling measurement.