OO design patterns, design structure, and program changes: An industrial case study

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 580-591

  Bieman, James M ^a   Jain, Dolly ^a   Yang, Helen J ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Design patterns; Object oriented design; Software changes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABILITY; DESIGN PATTERNS; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; PEARSON CORRELATION; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CORRELATION METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956618106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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