Change coupling metric

[ChristianHuehn]

File coupling metric is currently not further described on how and what it will count. This should be fixed according to this list:

• Coupling should be renamed and made clear that it is currently only a class coupling metric per file
• If a class uses any amount of methods from another class it's count as 1
• Fluent Interface or also called Method Chaining, should also be counted if possible. As the following example explains this pretty good:

a.buildB().buildC().buildD().doStuff();

// kinda equivalent to
const a: A = new A();
const b: B = a.buildB();
const c: C = b.buildC();
const d: D = c.buildD();
d.doStuff();

This means that you need knowledge over the implementation of the other classes and therefor coupling them together.

• We count statics too

Background information

It can be helpful to also check the visual studio implementation of it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/code-metrics-class-coupling?view=vs-2022

[BridgeAR]

We should ideally have different type of coupling metrics, not only a single one.

[ChristianHuehn]

Exactly, that is our plan 👍 . But first we want a basic version, that works and is tested. Before we move on adding new coupling metrics.