From retrospect to prospect: Assessing modularity and stability from software architecture

2009 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA/ECSA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-272

  Sethi, Kanwarpreet ^a   Cai, Yuanfang ^a   Wong, Sunny ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Sant'Anna, Claudio ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Design stability; Metrics; Software architecture; Software modularity

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE MODELS; ASPECT-ORIENTED; DESIGN STABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXTERNAL FACTORS; HIGH-LEVEL MODELS; LOGICAL MODELS; MODULAR DESIGNS; MODULARIZATIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED; QUANTITATIVE STABILITY; SOFTWARE CHANGE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE MODULARITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOURCE CODES;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STABILITY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 74349124925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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