On the application of software metrics to UML models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4364 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 217-226

  McQuillan, Jacqueline A ^a   Power, James F ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Metamodels; Object oriented systems; Software metrics; UML

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE TESTING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

METAMODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE METRICS; UML MODELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38149101593     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69489-2_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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