Empirical analysis of CK metrics for object-oriented design complexity: Implications for software defects

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-310

  Subramanyam, Ramanath ^a   Krishnan, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

C++; Java; Object oriented design; Object oriented languages; Software metrics validation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; SOFTWARE METRICS VALIDATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038300307     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1191795     Document Type: Article

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