An empirical study of software architectures' effect on product quality

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1233-1243

  Hansen, Klaus Marius ^a   Jonasson, Kristjan ^b   Neukirchen, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Metrics; Product quality; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COUPLING DEGREE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; METHOD COMPLEXITY; METRICS; OPEN SOURCES; PRODUCT METRICS; PRODUCT QUALITY; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 79956225577     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.02.037     Document Type: Article

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