A controlled experiment for assessing the contribution of design pattern documentation on software maintenance

ESEM 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Scanniello, Giuseppe ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^b   Risi, Michele ^b   Tortora, Genoveffa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

controlled experiment; design pattern; maintenance

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN PATTERN; DESIGN PATTERNS; MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DESIGN; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78149270062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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