Predicting class testability using object-oriented metrics

Proceedings - Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 136-145

  Bruntink, Magiel ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOURCE CODES; TESTABILITY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 14344257908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2004.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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