Using structural and semantic metrics to improve class cohesion

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 27-36

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Vorraro, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CASE STUDIES; COHESION METRICS; ECLIPSE PLATFORMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; REFACTORING; REFACTORING METHODS; SEMANTIC INFORMATIONS; SEMANTIC METRICS; SOURCE CODES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 57849147268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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