Revising cohesion measures by considering the impact of write interactions between class members

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 405-417

  Woo, Gyun ^a   Chae, Heung Seok ^a   Cui, Jian Feng ^a   Ji, Jeong Hoon ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Metrics measurement; Object oriented design; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; KETONES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDIES; COHESION; METRICS/MEASUREMENT; OBJECT-ORIENTED; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN;

ADHESION;

EID: 56349164615     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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