Evaluating the effect of inheritance on the modifiability of object-oriented business domain models

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 20-29

  Poels, Geert ^a   Dedene, Guido ^b  

^a University of Sciences and Arts   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN MODELS; HOTEL ADMINISTRATION; SOFTWARE MODIFIABILITY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYNTACTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0035784471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2001.914964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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