Software refactoring at the package level using clustering techniques

IET Software

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-286

  Alkhalid, A ^a   Alshayeb, M ^b   Mahmoud, S A ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLETE LINKAGE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED; INTERNAL COMPLEXITY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; PACKAGE LEVELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES; REFACTORINGS; SINGLE LINKAGE ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; SOFTWARE REFACTORING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 79959888613     PISSN: 17518806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2010.0070     Document Type: Article

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