Reuse contracts: Managing the evolution of reusable assets

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 268-285

  Steyaert, Patrick ^a   Lucas, Carine ^a   Mens, Kim ^a   D'Hondt, Theo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

REUSABLE ARTIFACTS; REUSE CONTRACTS; SOFTWARE REUSE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0030261378     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/236338.236363     Document Type: Article

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