The conceptual cohesion of classes

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 133-142

  Marcus, Andrian ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESION MEASUREMENT; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33646924318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2005.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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