Do maintainers utilize deployed design patterns effectively?

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 168-177

  Ng, T H ^a,b   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

Design patterns; Empirical study; Faulty codes; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DESIGN PATTERNS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; FAULTY CODES;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548709078     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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