An investigation into the applicability and validity of object-oriented design metrics

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-273

  Harrison, R ^a   Counsell, S J ^a   Nithi, R V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Object oriented metrics; Software quality

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); LEARNING SYSTEMS; METRIC SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVALUATION;

APPLICABILITY; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; VALIDITY; SOFTWARE METRICS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032157724     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009784121652     Document Type: Article

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