Detecting structural changes in object oriented software systems

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 479-486

  Vasa, Rajesh ^a   Schneider, Jean Guy ^a   Woodward, Clinton ^a   Cain, Andrew ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NONLINEAR ACTIVITY; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33749080291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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