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type use coupling comparison table

Subject	be avoided	occur	has definition	have disadvantage	be	is a kind of	reduce by	occur in
coupling			A measure of the extent to which interdependencies exist between software modules		hard to assess	software quality
type use coupling		when a class declares a variable as having another class as its type	A form of coupling in which several components make use of the same globally-defined data type	if the type definition changes, then the users of the type may well have to change.	similar to common coupling, but instead of data being shared, only data types are shared	coupling	ensuring that a class is only type-coupled to classes in a relatively small number of packages declaring the type of a variable to be the most general possible class or interface that contains the required operations	typed languages such as Java

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