Dynamic coupling measurement for object-oriented software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 491-506

  Arisholm, Erik ^a   Briand, Lionel C ^b   Føyen, Audun ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CHANGE PREDICTIONS; COUPLING MEASUREMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; POLYMORPHISM; QUALITY MODELING; STATIC CODE ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4344674040     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.41     Document Type: Article

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