Indicators of structural stability of object-oriented designs: A case study

Proceedings of the 2005 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 183-190

  Elish, Mahmoud O ^a   Rine, David ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Object oriented designs; Software evolution; Software metrics; Structural stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGNS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE METRICS; STRUCTURAL STABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33646947674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEW.2005.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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