International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The importance of object-oriented software metrics is increasing day by day to evaluate and predict the quality of software. Coupling is one of the object-oriented metrics. It is a dependency degree to which one program module depends on one of the other modules. Coupling measures play a significant role in the quality aspect of object-oriented software, from design up to maintenance. To correctly predict the quality factors of object oriented software, the coupling should be accurately measured. In the related literature, we find many techniques to measure coupling. But, No any author explained the implementation of his technique(s) in details and made the tool available to know how exactly coupling has been measured. In this paper, we propose a tool for measurement of coupling among classes of Java software. Java source code is taken as an input for the tool to measure coupling. The input Java code is parsed, and tokens are extracted. These tokens along with the code are used to measure different types of Coupling in Java software. Coupling of different sample Java codes is measured with the tool to observe values of each coupling type.