An experimental evaluation of quality guidelines on the maintainability of object-oriented design documents

Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 1-19

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Bunse, Christian ^a   Daly, John W ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design documents; Experiment; Maintainability; Object oriented; Replication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; MAINTAINABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

DESIGN DOCUMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXTERNAL REPLICATION; MAINTENANCE PROJECTS; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; REPLICATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0004856905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/266399.266401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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