Detecting software modularity violations

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 411-420

  Wong, Sunny ^a   Cai, Yuanfang ^a   Kim, Miryung ^b   Dalton, Michael ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

bad code smells; design structure matrix; modularity violation detection; refactoring

Indexed keywords

BAD CODE SMELLS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRIX; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MODULARITY VIOLATION DETECTION; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE MODULARITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DESIGN;

EID: 79959864367     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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