How do Java programs use inheritance? An empirical study of inheritance in Java software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5142 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 667-691

  Tempero, Ewan ^a   Noble, James ^b   Melton, Hayden ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LIBRARIES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CORPUS ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN; EXTERNAL-; JAVA PROGRAMS; JAVA SOFTWARE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 49149098396     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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