Exploring the relationships between design metrics and package understandability: A case study

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 144-147

  Elish, Mahmoud O ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Object oriented software; Packages; Software comprehension; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COLLINEARITY; DESIGN METRICS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PACKAGES; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE METRICS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PACKAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77956139457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2010.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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