Does refactoring improve reusability?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4039 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 287-297

  Moser, Raimund ^a   Sillitti, Alberto ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b   Succi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY METRICS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOURCE CODE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 33746255420     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11763864_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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