Metrics for quality analysis and improvement of object-oriented software

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 497-509

  Ebert, Christof ^a   Morschel, Ivan ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development support; Maintainability; Metrics; Object oriented metrics; Quality control; Smalltalk

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT; OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; SMALLTALK;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031188881     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(97)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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