TITLE:
Cyclomatic Complexity-Based Encapsulation, Data Hiding, and Separation of Concerns
AUTHORS:
Charles W. Butler, Thomas J. McCabe
KEYWORDS:
Object-Oriented Design Methods, Reliability, Complexity Measures, Software Design, Encapsulation, Information Hiding, Separation of Concerns, McCabe Metrics, Coefficient of Encapsulation, Coefficient of Data Hiding, Coefficient of Separation of Concerns
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.14 No.1,
January
21,
2021
ABSTRACT: Three design principles are prominent in software development-encapsulation, data hiding, and separation of concerns. These principles are used as subjective quality criteria for both procedural and object-oriented applications. The purpose of research is to quantify encapsulation, data hiding, and separation of concerns is quantified using cyclomatic-based metrics. As a result of this research, the derived design metrics, coefficient of encapsulation, coefficient of data hiding, and coefficient of separation of concerns, are defined and applied to production software indicating whether the software has low or high encapsulation, data hiding, and separation of concerns.