Information hiding and visibility in interface specifications

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 385-394

  Leavens, Gary T ^a   Müller, Peter ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

CLIENT REASONING; INFORMATION HIDING; INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548715247     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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