The role of constructors in the context of refactoring object-oriented systems

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 111-120

  Najjar, R ^a   Counsell, S ^a   Loizou, G ^a   Mannock, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA INTERFACES; JAVA SYSTEM; LINES OF CODE; OBJECT CREATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; REFACTORINGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 1842445220     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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