On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1972, Pages 1053-1058

  Parnas, D L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

KWIC index; modularity; modules; software; software design; software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0015482049     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/361598.361623     Document Type: Article

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