Package coupling measurement in object-oriented software

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-283

  Gupta, Varun ^a   Chhabra, Jitender Kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Coupling; Metrics; Object oriented software; Package; Understandability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COUPLINGS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PACKAGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; METRICS; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STRONG CORRELATION; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 65249150098     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-009-9223-6     Document Type: Article

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