Improving design quality using meta-pattern transformations: A metric-based approach

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 331-361

  Tahvildari, Ladan ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design flaws; Non functional requirements; Object oriented metrics; Program transformation; Software reengineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR CORRECTION; LOGIC DESIGN; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN FLAWS; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION; SOFTWARE REENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4344606635     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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