How fields are used in java: An empirical study

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-100

  Tempero, Ewan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Code analysis; Empirical study; Information hiding; Non private fields

Indexed keywords

CODE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDY; HIGHER QUALITY SOFTWARES; INFORMATION HIDING; JAVA APPLICATIONS; NON-PRIVATE FIELDS; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OPEN-SOURCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 70349495118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2009.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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