Measuring Functional Cohesion

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 644-657

  Ott, Linda M ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cohesion; measurement theory; program slices; Software measurement

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FUNCTIONAL COHESION; GLUE TOKENS; PROGRAM SLICES; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0028481554     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.310673     Document Type: Article

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