Software similarity-based functional cohesion metric

IET Software

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-57

  Al Dallal, J ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MAINTAINABILITY; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEGREE OF SIMILARITIES; EVALUATING SOFTWARES; EVALUATION RESULTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS;

ADHESION;

EID: 60249085896     PISSN: 17518806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen:20080054     Document Type: Article

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