Discovering comprehension pitfalls in class hierarchies

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-16

  Mihancea, Petru Florin ^a   Marinescu, Radu ^a  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Inheritance; Metrics; Polymorphism; Program understanding

Indexed keywords

CLASS HIERARCHIES; INHERITANCE; METRICS; OBJECT-ORIENTED CODE; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; RECURRENT PATTERNS; SIZED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE UNDERSTANDING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 67649845804     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2009.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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