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coupling between objects: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

an object-oriented metric counting how many other classes a class is coupled to through method use or attribute access.

In software engineering, coupling between objects refers to an object-oriented metric counting how many other classes a class is coupled to through method use or attribute access. This meaning comes from Chidamber (1994) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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References

Chidamber, S. R., & Kemerer, C. F. (1994). A metrics suite for object oriented design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 20(6), 476-493. https://doi.org/10.1109/32.295895

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