Are large C++ classes change-prone? An empirical investigation

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1551-1558

  Lindvall, Mikael ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change prone classes; Empirical study; Impact analysis; Software change

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

IMPACT ANALYSIS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0032288461     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(19981225)28:15<1551::AID-SPE212>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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