- A software quality metric invented by Meilir Page-Jones to enable reasoning about the complexity caused by dependency relationships in object-oriented design, much like coupling did for structured design. In software engineering, two components are connascent if a change in one would require the other to be modified in order to maintain the overall correctness of the system. In addition to allowing categorization of dependency relationships, connascence provides a system for comparing different types of dependency. Such comparisons between potential designs can hint at ways to improve the quality of the software. ← Wikipedia
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