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LCOM metric

Reports the classes that have high Lack of Cohesion metric value, which represents the degree of cohesiveness of a class.

It uses class dependency graph components for class cohesiveness measure (M. Hitz and B. Montazeri definition of LCOM metric)

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpLackOfCohesionInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | Refactoring opportunities

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the LCOM metric inspection, and the reference of their default values.

LCOM threshold

Default value:

1
Minimum number Of fields

Default value:

10
Minimum number Of methods

Default value:

10

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpLackOfCohesionInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

PhpStorm 2025.2, Qodana for PHP 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025