Component dependency in object-oriented software

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 379-386

  Yu, Li Guo ^a   Ramaswamy, Srini ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependency; Maintenance; Metric; Object oriented software; Reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT DEPENDENCIES; COMPONENT REUSE; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE; QUALITY FACTORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MAINTAINABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34249844056     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-007-9058-y     Document Type: Article

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