Identification of move method refactoring opportunities

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-367

  Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Design quality; Feature Envy; Jaccard distance; Move Method refactoring; Object oriented design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN QUALITY; FEATURE ENVY; JACCARD DISTANCE; MOVE METHOD REFACTORING; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN;

EID: 67649397342     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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