New Conceptual Coupling and cohesion metrics for object-oriented systems

Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 33-42

  Újházi, Béla ^a   Ferenc, Rudolf ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^b   Gyimóthy, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESION METRICS; COLUMBUS; FAULT-PRONENESS; MEASURING COUPLING; OBJECT CLASS; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STRUCTURAL METRICS;

FORECASTING;

ADHESION;

EID: 78649425635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2010.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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