A controlled experiment investigation of an object-oriented design heuristic for maintainability

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-143

  Deligiannis, Ignatios ^a   Stamelos, Ioannis ^b   Angelis, Lefteris ^b   Roumeliotis, Manos ^c   Shepperd, Martin ^d  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Experiment; Heuristics; Maintainability; Object oriented

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DESIGN; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTAINABILITY; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HEURISTICS; OBJECT-ORIENTED; REUSABLE COMPONENTS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2342489393     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(03)00240-1     Document Type: Article

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