[Moose-dev] Re: bunch cohesion and coupling

Hi all, glad you are interested in this stuff. So first thing: the metrics implemented by Andre are used to do automatic re-structuring of classes into packages as Alex said. But they are only the metrics, you need an algorithm to do the actual regrouping of class in packages. The algorithms uses the metrics to know what classes are "closer" one to the other. Without this algorithm (not very difficult to implement) there is always the possibility to use the metrics as quality metrics for existing packages. However I would be cautious about that. Actually, I started to implement them (and Andre took the flag recently) to experiment more formaly their real interest. My impression is, actually, that they are not that much interesting for this purpose, that people do not really group classes based on cohesion/couopling considerations, but rather or higher level consideration (like all UI goes there, and all security code goes there, ...) If you are still interested, I can provide more details :-) BTW, jannik did a related work with DSM, except he was looking at cycles, i.e. he used another metric. nicolas ----- Mail original -----