An empirical study of slice-based cohesion and coupling metrics

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Meyers, Timothy M ^a   Binkley, David ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Coupling; Reengineering; Slicing; Software intervention

Indexed keywords

COHESION METRICS; SOFTWARE INTERVENTION;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 38349154910     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314493.1314495     Document Type: Article

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