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A New Metric for Package Cohesion Measurement Based on Complex Network

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Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019)

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With software evolution and code expansion, software structure becomes more and more complex. Refactoring can be used to improve the structure design and decrease the complexity of software. In this paper, we propose a cohesive metric that can be used for package refactoring. It considers not only the dependencies of intra-package and inter-package, but also the backward dependencies of inter-package. After theoretical verification and empirical verification on multiple open source softwares, our metric is proved to effectively measure software structure.

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  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Yanran Mi, Yanxi Zhou & Liangyu Chen

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  1. University of Burgundy, Dijon Cedex, France

    Hocine Cherifi

  2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Sabrina Gaito

  3. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    José Fernendo Mendes

  4. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Esteban Moro

  5. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Luis Mateus Rocha

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Mi, Y., Zhou, Y., Chen, L. (2020). A New Metric for Package Cohesion Measurement Based on Complex Network. In: Cherifi, H., Gaito, S., Mendes, J., Moro, E., Rocha, L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 881. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36687-2_20

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