Exploring empirically the relationship between lack of cohesion and testability in object-oriented systems

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 117 CCIS, Issue , 2010, Pages 78-92

  Badri, Linda ^a   Badri, Mourad ^a   Toure, Fadel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical Analysis; Lack of Cohesion; Metrics; Quality Attributes; Relationship; Software Attributes; Testability

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LACK OF COHESION; METRICS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; RELATIONSHIP; SOFTWARE ATTRIBUTES; TESTABILITY;

ADHESION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 78651074951     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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