Response to 'Comments on: A cohesion measure ford object-oriented classes'

Indicating that CBMC does not satisfy the monotonic property in terms of th e number of interactions, Xu and Zhou proposed an augmented definition of C BMC by adopting cut set instead of glue methods. The augmented CBMC clearly satisfies the monotonic property. However, CBMC is designed to overcome th e problem with respect to the number of interactions and, therefore, focuse s, on the interaction pattern, especially, member connectivity. Consequentl y it does not make sense to mention the monotonic property of CBMC with res pect to interaction number. Moreover, the notion of glue methods allows sev eral interpretations on the design quality of a class. However, that meanin gful interpretation is not possible for the augmented definition due to the removal of the notion of glue methods. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Son s, Ltd.