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utility cohesion comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	be	has definition
cohesion	software quality	hard to assess	A measure of the extent to which related aspects of a system are kept together in the same module, and unrelated aspects are kept out
utility cohesion	cohesion	the weakest kind of cohesion since it serves to group together those parts of the system that do not seem to logically belong anywhere else	A form of cohesion in which utilities which cannot be logically placed in other cohesive units are kept together

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