The impact of service cohesion on the analyzability of service-oriented software

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-103

  Perepletchikov, Mikhail ^a   Ryan, Caspar ^a   Tari, Zahir ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

design concepts; maintainability; product metrics; Services systems

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONCEPT; DESIGN CONCEPTS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; PRODUCT METRICS; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE METRICS;

ADHESION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTAINABILITY; PRODUCT DESIGN;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77954468972     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2010.23     Document Type: Article

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