Measuring design testability of a UML class diagram

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 859-879

  Baudry, Benoit ^a   Traon, Yves Le ^b  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Anti patterns; Object oriented software measurement; Object oriented testing; Software design quality; Testability; UML

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANTI-PATTERNS; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; OBJECT-ORIENTED TESTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN QUALITY; TESTABILITY; UML;

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY;

EID: 25644439253     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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