A novel approach to measuring class cohesion based on dependence analysis

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 377-384

  Chen, Zhenqiang ^a,b   Zhou, Yuming ^a,b   Xu, Baowen ^a,b   Zhao, Jianjun ^c   Yang, Hongji ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; GRAPH THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA ABSTRACTION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0036437985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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