Quality impacts of clandestine common coupling

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-218

  Schach, Stephen R ^a   Jin, Bo ^a   Wright, David R ^a   Heller, Gillian Z ^b   Offutt, Jeff ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clandestine coupling; Common coupling; Coupling; Dependencies; Linux; Open source software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLANDESTINE COUPLING; COMMON COUPLING; COUPLING; DEPENDENCIES; LINUX; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 3543112620     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025114726917     Document Type: Article

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