Metric-based approach to detect abstract data types and state encapsulations

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-386

  Girard, Jean François ^a   Koschke, Rainer ^b   Schied, Georg ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ABSTRACT DATA TYPES; ABSTRACT STATE ENCAPSULATION; SIMILARITY CLUSTERING; SOURCE CODE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033208054     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008715506131     Document Type: Article

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