Coupling and Cohesion

Time spent on software design process takes the most significant part of the software development life cycle. Taken design decision affects the whole product positively or negatively so at this point, coupling and cohesion come into play.
Coupling is defined as a measure of intermodule connectivity. There are different forms of coupling such as data,stamp,control and common-environment coupling.
Cohesion helps to determine how functionally the intramodule components are related. Principal forms of cohesion are listed as functional, sequential, communicational, procedural, temporal, logical and coincidental.
General design approach includes generating highly cohesive and loosely coupled modules. Highly cohesive modules contain logically related operations together into the same structure and that helps to define responsibility at a specific location. Designing loosely coupled modules decreases dependencies to other modules so a small change in one dependent module does not break other parts.