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common coupling can be avoided by creating a module that has specially-designated public methods, which can be called to obtain or modify the system-wide default values 2001-08-30 14:54:57.0
has definition A form of coupling in which components share data using a global variable and thus become dependent on each other
is a subtopic of 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design 2001-08-30 14:54:58.0
is a kind of coupling
shares many of the disadvantages of content coupling
should be minimized

coupling implies that if you want to reuse one component, you will also have to import all the ones with which it is coupled 2001-08-30 14:55:07.0

software quality is hard to assess 2001-08-30 14:57:42.0

common coupling	can be avoided by creating a module that has specially-designated public methods, which can be called to obtain or modify the system-wide default values
	has definition A form of coupling in which components share data using a global variable and thus become dependent on each other
	is a subtopic of 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design
	is a kind of coupling
	shares many of the disadvantages of content coupling
	should be minimized
coupling	implies that if you want to reuse one component, you will also have to import all the ones with which it is coupled
software quality	is hard to assess