Refactoring - Improving coupling and cohesion of existing code

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 144-151

  Bois, Bart Du ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^a   Verelst, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREE; META-PATTERN TRANSFORMATIONS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; REFACTORINGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 18144381075     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2004.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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