An evaluation of the MOOD set of object-oriented software metrics

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 491-496

  Harrison, Rachel ^a   Counsell, Steve J ^a   Nithi, Reuben V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessing object oriented software; Empirical software engineering; Validating software metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000083694     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.689404     Document Type: Article

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