Schaum's Outline Series

CHAPTER 12 Object-Oriented Metrics 197
Metric 3: Number of Children (NOC)
Class NOC
person 1
student 0
personlist 0
Metric 4: Coupling between Object Classes (CBO)
See Fig. 12-4.
person
addName
addSsn
getName
display
personlist
addPerson
addStudent
display
Fig. 12-4
The class diagram is annotated with arrows to show which functions (or constructors)
are called by each function (only calls in other classes are shown).
Class Coupled Classes CBO
person student, personlist 2
student person, personlist 2
personlist person, student 2
student
addGpa
display