The confounding effect of class size on the validity of object-oriented metrics

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 630-650

  El Emam, Khaled ^a   Benlarbi, Säda ^b   Goel, Nishith ^b   Rai, Shesh N ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Cistel Technology Inc   (Canada)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion metrics; Coupling metrics; Inheritance metrics; Metrics validation; Object oriented metrics; Object oriented quality; Software quality; Validation methodology

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035394038     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.935855     Document Type: Article

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