A controlled experiment for evaluating the impact of coupling on the maintainability of service-oriented software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 449-465

  Perepletchikov, Mikhail ^a   Ryan, Caspar ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

design concepts; empirical studies; maintainability; product metrics; Services systems

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN CONCEPT; DESIGN DECISIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PRODUCT METRICS; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING; SERVICE-ORIENTED DESIGN; SERVICES SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 79961043082     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.61     Document Type: Article

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