Metrics for maintainability of class inheritance hierarchies

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 147-160

  Sheldon, Frederick T ^a   Jerath, Kshamta ^a   Chung, Hong ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class inheritance; Object oriented; Software maintenance; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN (OOD);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0036576351     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.249     Document Type: Article

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