Does god class decomposition affect comprehensibility?

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, as part of the 24th IASTED International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 346-355

  Bois, Bart Du ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^a   Verelst, Jan ^a   Mens, Tom ^b   Temmerman, Marijn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c Karel de Grote Hogeschool Katholieke Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Decomposition; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATING CLASSES; COMPREHENSIBILITY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONFORMAL MAPPING; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34047112333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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