Chidamber and kemerer's metrics suite: A measurement theory perspective

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 267-271

  Hitz, Martin ^a   Montazeri, Behzad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cohesion metrics; Coupling metrics; Object orientation; Software measurement; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747423952     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.491650     Document Type: Article

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