Program execution based module cohesion measurement

Proceedings - 16th Annual International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 144-153

  Gupta, Neelam ^a   Rao, Praveen ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Module cohesion; Software maintenance; Software metrics; Software restructuring

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; LEGACY SYSTEMS;

COHESION METRICS; LEGACY SOFTWARE; MODULE COHESION; PROGRAM EXECUTION; PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS; PROPERTY; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE RESTRUCTURING; STATIC SLICING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 4544365308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2001.989800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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