A review of experimental investigations into object-oriented technology

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 193-231

  Deligiannis, Ignatios S ^a   Shepperd, Martin ^b   Webster, Steve ^c   Roumeliotis, Manos ^d  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Semaphore Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Experiment; Object oriented technology; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036724825     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016392131540     Document Type: Article

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