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Categorization of common coupling in kernel based software

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Liguo Yu,

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ACMSE '05 vol 2: Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference - Volume 2

Pages 207 - 210

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Published: 18 March 2005 Publication History

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Common coupling is an important factor that needs to be considered in software design. It affects software dependency via the definition-use relationship of global variables. Common coupling can arise in all types of software; here we focus on issues specific to kernel-based software. In a previous paper, we described a categorization of common coupling and used it to study the maintainability of the Linux operating system. In this paper, we present a detailed description of this categorization, prove its completeness, and suggest further applications. We hope that, by this approach, we can make it easier for others to use our categorization to measure the maintainability of other kernel-based software.

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ACMSE '05 vol 2: Proceedings of the 43rd annual ACM Southeast Conference - Volume 2

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DOI:10.1145/1167253

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