Measurement of object-oriented software spatial complexity

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 689-699

  Chhabra, Jitender Kumar ^a   Aggarwal, K K ^b   Singh, Yogesh ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Object oriented software; Psychological complexity; Software metrics; Spatial complexity; Understandability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARES; PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE METRICS; SPATIAL COMPLEXITY; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2142786758     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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