A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-117

  Briand, Lionel C ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Daly, John W ^a,h   Wüst, Jürgen ^a,i  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Fraunhofer Inst Exp Software Eng ^*

^d CISI Ingénierie   (France)

^e University of Maryland   (Germany)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Measurement; Object oriented

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE COHESION MEASUREMENT;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031674184     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009783721306     Document Type: Article

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