An empirical study of the impact of two antipatterns, Blob and Spaghetti Code, on program comprehension

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-190

  Abbes, Marwen ^a   Khomh, Foutse ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c   Antoniol, Giuliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antipatterns; Blob; Empirical software engineering; Program comprehension; Program maintenance; Spaghetti Code

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PATTERNS; BLOB; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM MAINTENANCE; SPAGHETTI CODE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NASA; REENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 79955165301     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2011.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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