Can we avoid high coupling?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6813 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 204-228

  Taube Schock, Craig ^a   Walker, Robert J ^b   Witten, Ian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LOW COUPLING; REAL SOFTWARES; SCALE-FREE STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

ADHESION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORECASTING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79961164411     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22655-7_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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