The interpretation and utility of three cohesion metrics for object-oriented design

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-149

  Counsell, Steve ^a   Swift, Stephen ^a   Crampton, Jason ^b,c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohesion

Indexed keywords

COHESION; COHESION METRICS; OBJECT-ORIENTED (OO) PARADIGM; PROGRAMMING PARADIGM;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

METRIC SYSTEM;

EID: 33745389057     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 1049331X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1131421.1131422     Document Type: Article

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