Toward measuring software coupling via weighted dynamic metrics
Henning Schnoor, Wilhelm Hasselbring · 2018
Coupling metrics are an established way to measure internal software quality with respect to modularity. Dynamic metrics have been used to improve the accuracy of static metrics for object-oriented software. We introduce a dynamic metric NOI that takes into account the number of interactions (method calls) during the run of a system. We used the data collected from an experiment to compute our NOI metric and compared the results to a static coupling analysis. We observed an unexpected level of correlation and significant differences between class- and package-level analyses.