| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| ACLASS | 
 Class Coupling (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| ACOMP | 
 Component Coupling (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| CIBF | 
 Component-level Interlacing Between Concerns (Sant’Anna et al, 2008) 
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| CM | 
 Conventional Function 
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| COE | 
 Cohesion (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| CS | 
 Weighted Operations per Component or Service (Ribeiro et al., 2010) 
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| DC | 
 Feature Diffusion (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| EC | 
 Feature Interaction (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| ELEG | 
 Elegance 
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| EXT | 
 PLA Extensibility
 It aims to indicate the degree of extensibility of the LPS. 
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| FDAC | 
 Feature Diffusion over Architectural Classes (Sant’Anna et al, 2008) 
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| FM | 
 Feature Driven Function 
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| LCC | 
 Lack of Concern-based Cohesion (Santos et al., 2015) 
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| LFCC | 
 Lack of Concern-based Cohesion (Sant’Anna et al, 2008) 
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| RCC | 
 Relationship Coupling of Components - RCC(pla) (Ribeiro et al., 2010)
 (Sum CBCS(itf))
 CBCS Metric: Coupling Between Components or Services
 It is calculated based on the number of relationships between
 a service A, for example and other services. 
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| SD | 
 Structure Similarity Coefficient (Zhang et al., 2008) 
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| SV | 
 Structure Variability Coefficient (Ahrens et al., 2013) 
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| TAM | 
 Size of PLA 
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| TV | 
 Architecture Variability (Zhang et al., 2008) 
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| WOCSCLASS | 
 Weighted Operations per Component or Service (Ribeiro et al., 2010) 
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