Coupling and cohesion are distinctly different concepts but often confused. Coupling is the degree of dependency between an application’s modules or components, i.e., the strength of the relationships ...

Loose coupling is an approach to interconnecting the components in a system, network or software application so that those components, also called elements, depend on each other to the least extent ...

Understanding the five kinds of static connascence will help you see more deeply into your code and how it works – and how you could make it better. Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of ...

Hardware and software components that are linked together and dependent upon each other. For example, in a multiprocessing environment, where several computers share the workload, a tightly-coupled ...

The hardware and software that turns an IBM mainframe Base Sysplex system into a Parallel Sysplex. It is made up of special microcode built into the machine, and the CFCC operating system (Coupling ...

Coupling and cohesion are two fundamental concepts surrounding software architecture. Application architects who maintain a good understanding of coupling and cohesion will find it much easier to ...