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

ICSOFT 2010 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 317-324

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupling; Lack of cohesion; Metrics; Quality attributes; Size; Software attributes; Software quality

Indexed keywords

LACK OF COHESION; METRICS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SIZE; SOFTWARE ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

ADHESION; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 78751502894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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