A controlled experiment in maintenance comparing design patterns to simpler solutions

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1134-1144

  Prechelt, Lutz ^a,b   Unger, Barbara ^a,b   Tichy, Walter F ^a,b   Brössler, Peter ^c   Votta, Lawrence G ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c sd and m GmbH and Co   (Germany)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Change effort; Controlled experiment; Design alternatives; Design pattern; Maintenance

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0035670715     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.988711     Document Type: Article

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