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Cohesion

Cohesion is the degree of closeness of the functions within a component. For example, consider a library of functions. If the library contains similar functions, then it is said to have high cohesion. A general purpose library, with many different functions, is said to have low cohesion.



Ronald LeRoi Burback
1998-12-14