Investigating the impact of design debt on software quality

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 17-23

  Zazworka, Nico ^a   Shaw, Michele A ^a   Shull, Forrest ^a   Seaman, Carolyn ^a,b  

^a Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

code smells; design debt; god class; maintainability; refactoring; technical debt

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; GOD CLASS; IMPACT DESIGN; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; ONE DIMENSION; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TECHNICAL DEBT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; MAINTAINABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79960575289     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985362.1985366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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