[EVOL]: studying the possibility of adding Feature Coupling Network (FCN)

[helabenkhalfallah]

Based on this study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332077543_Measuring_Software_Modularity_Based_on_Software_Networks

We should study the difference with our way of measuring modularity and FCN.

How FCN Works

• Extracting Software Structural Information
  • Uses static analysis to extract methods, attributes, and their relationships.
  • Only considers elements defined inside the software, ignoring external libraries.
• Constructing the FCN Graph
  • Each method or attribute is a node.
  • If method A calls method B → An edge exists between A and B.
  • If method A accesses attribute X → An edge exists between A and X.
  • The weight on each edge represents the strength of the coupling (e.g., number of calls).
• Applying the Modularity Metric (Q)
  • Uses class structures as natural community boundaries.
  • Computes a modularity score (Q) to quantify how well a software adheres to "high cohesion, low coupling".

If we integrated FCN-like principles, perhaps we could analyze dependencies at the function/method level instead of just module-level.