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| common coupling comparison table | |||||
| Subject | avoid by | is a kind of | share | minimize | has definition | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coupling | software quality | A measure of the extent to which interdependencies exist between software modules | |||
| common coupling | creating a module that has specially-designated public methods, which can be called to obtain or modify the system-wide default values | coupling | many of the disadvantages of content coupling | A form of coupling in which components share data using a global variable and thus become dependent on each other | 
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