ICBMC: An improved cohesion measure for classes

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 44-53

  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

INFORMATION THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); METRIC SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

COHESION MEASURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036440041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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