Refining the axiomatic definition of internal software attributes

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 188-197

  Morasca, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Complexity; Coupling; Internal software attributes; Size

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; REFINING;

AXIOMATIC APPROACHES; AXIOMATIC DEFINITIONS; COHESION; COMPLEXITY; INTERNAL SOFTWARE ATTRIBUTES; INTRINSIC PROPERTIES; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; SIZE; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 62949179654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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