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We provide the motivation for calculating the Cohesion and Coupling (C&C) of Ada programs. We briefly describe the calculation methodology. We then describe a tool, based on traversing Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada (DIANA) nets, that extracts those Ada program characteristics needed for C&C calculations. We evaluate two ways to tree-walk DIANA nets and provide the rationale for choosing between them. We describe some techniques we used to manipulate DIANA nets that may be of general interest.
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Cherniack, J.R., Dhama, H.S., Fandozzi, J.F. (1993). Tool for computing cohesion and coupling in Ada programs: DIANA dependent part. In: Gauthier, M. (eds) Ada - Europe '93. Ada-Europe 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56802-6_15
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