An empirical study of class sizes for large java systems

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 230-237

  Zhang, Hongyu ^a   Tan, Hee Beng Kuan ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTERS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MODAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

(SPM) CLASSES; ASIA PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GENERAL (CO); JAVA SOFTWARE; JAVA SYSTEMS; LARGE SIZES; LINES OF CODE (LOC); LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; OBJECT-ORIENTED (OO) SOFTWARE; SIZE ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 44949093435     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2007.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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