Work experience versus refactoring to design patterns: A controlled experiment

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 12-22

  Ng, T H ^a   Cheung, S C ^b   Chan, W K ^a   Yu, Y T ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Design patterns; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DESIGN PATTERNS; REFACTORING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 34547337753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1181775.1181778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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