Experimental Evaluation of Agreement among Programmers in Applying the Rules of Cohesion

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-53

  Nandigam, Jagadeesh ^a,b   Lakhotia, Arun ^b,c,d   Čech, Claude G ^b,c,e  

^a GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c Center for Adv Comput Studies   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Levels of strength or cohesion; Module cohesion; Module strength; Software engineering rules; Software measures; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MODULE COHESION; SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0032677279     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199901/02)11:1<35::aid-smr183>3.0.co;2-t     Document Type: Article

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