Run-time cohesion metrics: An empirical investigation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP'04

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 532-537

  Mitchell, Áine ^a   Power, James F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METRIC SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REDUNDANCY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COHESION METRICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATIC ANALYSIS; STATIC DESIGN METRICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 12344323815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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