Design level hypothesis testing through reverse engineering of object-oriented software

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-220

  Counsell, Steve ^a   Newson, Pete ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coupling; Hypothesis; Metrics; Object oriented; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS; HYPOTHESIS; INHERITANCE; LIBRARY-BASED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE METRICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2642536082     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194004001609     Document Type: Article

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