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content coupling
subject			fact

content coupling	has definition An undesirable form of coupling in which a component surreptitiously modifies internal data of another component
	is a subtopic of 9.2 - Principles Leading to Good Design
	is a kind of coupling
	should be avoided since any modification of data should be easy to find and easy to understand
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

Kinds of content coupling :

• content coupling in Java (5 facts)