Coupling and cohesion as modularization drivers: Are we being over-persuaded?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 47-57

  Brito e Abreu, Fernando ^a   Goulão, Miguel ^a  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clustering analysis; Cohesion; Coupling; Modularity

Indexed keywords

MODULARIZATION TRIAL TOOL FOR OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE MODULARIZATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE UNDERSTANDING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REENGINEERING;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035784848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2001.914968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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