Stability assessment of evolving industrial object-oriented frameworks

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-102

  Mattsson, Michael ^a,b   Bosch, Jan ^a,c,d  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Framework assessment; Framework evolution; Framework stability; Object oriented framework; Object oriented metrics; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA ACQUISITION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FRAMEWORK ASSESSMENT; FRAMEWORK EVOLUTION; FRAMEWORK STABILITY; STABILITY ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0034148902     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(200003/04)12:2<79::aid-smr204>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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