Computing software metrics from design documents

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 146-151

  Stein, Cara ^a   Etzkorn, Letha ^a   Utley, Dawn ^b   Farrington, Phillip ^b   Cox, Glenn ^a   Fortune, Julie ^b   Gholston, Sampson ^b  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Design document; Object oriented software; Semantic metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING SOFTWARE; DESIGN DESIGNS; DESIGN DOCUMENTS; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; SEMANTIC METRICS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYNTACTICS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77953094981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/986537.986571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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