Analizo::Metric::LackOfCohesionOfMethods - Lack of Cohesion of Methods (LCOM4) metric
The metric calculation is based on the following article and calculates the cohesion of the class.
Article:
M. Hitz and B. Montazeri, "Measuring coupling and cohesion in object-oriented systems," in Proceedings of the International. Symposium on Applied Corporate Computing, 1995. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.409.4862
The LCOM4 value for a module is the number of connected components of an undirected graph, where the nodes are the module's subroutines (methods, functions etc.), and the edges indicate that two subroutines use at least one attribute/variable in common, or that one subroutines calls the other. These connected components represent independent parts of a module, and modules that have more than one of them have independent, distinct responsibilities.
You can see a study using the LCOM4 metric on the following paper:
Terceiro, Antonio, et al. "Understanding structural complexity evolution: A quantitative analysis." Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2012 16th European Conference on. IEEE, 2012. NBR 6023 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6178856/
For a comparative study on the various LCOM1, LCOM2, LCOM3, LCOM4 and LCOM5 see:
Kaur, Taranjeet, and Rupinder Kaur. "Comparison of various lacks of Cohesion Metrics." International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) 4.5 (2013). NBR 6023 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.686.2543
To install Analizo, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Analizo
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Analizo
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.