Analyzing the Cohesion and Coupling of State Chart Diagrams using Program Slicing Techniques

w w w . i j c s t . c o m InternatIonal Journal of Computer SCIenCe and teChnology 69 Abstract The State Chart Diagrams are used for analyzing the dynamic behavior of system. The understandably of State Chart Diagrams are important for the effective and clear communication among developers. In this paper we, propose a cohesion and coupling , as Average Cohesiveness of States (ACOS) and Average number of Similar states (ASSOS), for the evaluation of the understandability of states chart diagrams using program slicing. We had given the new technique of finding the cohesion and coupling of the state chart diagram by building the dependency graph first and then program slicing of the state chart diagrams to get effective results.