Evaluating the effect of a delegated versus centralized control style on the maintainability of object-oriented software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 521-534

  Arisholm, Erik ^a   Sjøberg, Dag I K ^a  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CONTROL STYLES; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4344598248     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.43     Document Type: Article

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