Product Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 191-221

  Purao, Sandeep ^a   Vaishnavi, Vijay ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement theory; Object oriented metrics; Object oriented product metrics; Object oriented systems; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS; SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0345565885     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/857076.857090     Document Type: Review

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