Package Fingerprints: A visual summary of package interface usage

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1312-1330

  Abdeen, Hani ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^a   Pollet, Damien ^a   Alloui, Ilham ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^b Université de Savoie   (France)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Coupling; Software package; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COHESION; CYCLIC DEPENDENCIES; LARGE SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CLIENTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PACKAGE INTERFACES; SMALLTALK; USER STUDY; VISUAL PATTERN;

ADHESION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; VISUALIZATION;

PACKAGING;

EID: 77957334608     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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