diff --git a/docs/releasenotes.html b/docs/releasenotes.html
index 4f4d62d7b..d88c3f937 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes.html
+++ b/docs/releasenotes.html
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ checkstyle-user</a>).</li>
           contributed by Pierre Dittgen
           (request 978916).</li>
 
+          <li class="body">DataAbstractionCoupling reports coupling classes,
+          contributed by Benoit Xhenseval
+          (request 990055).</li>
+
         </ul>
 
       <p class="body">
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/AbstractClassCouplingCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/AbstractClassCouplingCheck.java
index d62dce2b2..25e015563 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/AbstractClassCouplingCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/AbstractClassCouplingCheck.java
@@ -285,8 +285,10 @@ public abstract class AbstractClassCouplingCheck extends Check
 
             if (mReferencedClassNames.size() > mMax) {
                 log(mLineNo, mColumnNo, getLogMessageId(),
-                    new Integer(mReferencedClassNames.size()),
-                    new Integer(getMax()));
+                    new Object[] {
+                        new Integer(mReferencedClassNames.size()),
+                        new Integer(getMax()),
+                            mReferencedClassNames.toString(), });
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/messages.properties b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/messages.properties
index d3cf677db..f6872093e 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/messages.properties
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/messages.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 booleanExpressionComplexity=Boolean expression complexity is {0,number,integer} (max allowed is {1,number,integer}).
-classDataAbstractionCoupling=Class Data Abstraction Coupling is {0,number,integer} (max allowed is {1,number,integer}).
+classDataAbstractionCoupling=Class Data Abstraction Coupling is {0,number,integer} (max allowed is {1,number,integer}) classes {2}.
 classFanOutComplexity=Class Fan-Out Complexity is {0,number,integer} (max allowed is {1,number,integer}).
 cyclomaticComplexity=Cyclomatic Complexity is {0,number,integer} (max allowed is {1,number,integer}).
 duplicateLiteral=Duplicate instances of literal ''{0}'' are not allowed.
diff --git a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheckTest.java b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheckTest.java
index 7d45d6054..18ae3195a 100644
--- a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/metrics/ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheckTest.java
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ public class ClassDataAbstractionCouplingCheckTest extends BaseCheckTestCase
         checkConfig.addAttribute("max", "0");
 
         String[] expected = {
-            "6:1: Class Data Abstraction Coupling is 4 (max allowed is 0).",
-            "7:5: Class Data Abstraction Coupling is 1 (max allowed is 0).",
+            "6:1: Class Data Abstraction Coupling is 4 (max allowed is 0) classes [AnotherInnerClass, InnerClass, HashSet, HashMap].",
+            "7:5: Class Data Abstraction Coupling is 1 (max allowed is 0) classes [ArrayList].",
         };
 
         verify(checkConfig,