An object-oriented high-level design-based class cohesion metric

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1346-1361

  Al Dallal, Jehad ^a   Briand, Lionel C ^b,c  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Class cohesion; Fault prediction; Object oriented design; Object oriented software quality

Indexed keywords

CLASS COHESION; COHESION METRICS; DESIGN QUALITY; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FAULT PREDICTION; HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN; IMPORTANT OBJECT; LARGE SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UML DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPEN SYSTEMS;

ADHESION;

EID: 77957344547     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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