Using object-level run-time metrics to study coupling between objects

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1456-1462

  Mitchell, Áine ^a   Power, James F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cluster Analysis; Object Behaviour; Object level Coupling Metrics

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BENCHMARKING; COUPLINGS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; METRIC SYSTEM; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COUPLING BETWEEN OBJECTS (CBO); OBJECT BEHAVIOUR; OBJECT LEVEL COUPLING METRICS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 27744604220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1067010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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