Measuring maintainability in early phase using aesthetic metrics

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-232

  Kiewkanya, Matinee ^a   Muenchaisri, Pornsiri ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aesthetic metric; Class diagram; Maintainability; Sequence diagram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AESTHETIC METRICS; CLASS DIAGRAMS; DECISION TREE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 20144363245     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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