Identifying Extract Class refactoring opportunities using structural and semantic cohesion measures

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-414

  Bavota, Gabriele ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Coupling; Empirical studies; Extract Class refactoring; Graph theory; MaxFlow MinCut

Indexed keywords

COHESION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MIN-CUT; REFACTORING METHODS; REFACTORINGS; SEMANTIC METRICS; SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; STRUCTURAL MEASURES; STRUCTURAL METRICS; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP;

GRAPH THEORY; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ADHESION;

EID: 78951485846     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.11.918     Document Type: Article

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