Identifying thresholds for object-oriented software metrics

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-257

  Ferreira, Kecia A M ^a   Bigonha, Mariza A S ^a   Bigonha, Roberto S ^a   Mendes, Luiz F O ^a   Almeida, Heitor C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Object oriented software; Open source software; Software metric thresholds

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; COUPLING FACTOR; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EXPECTED VALUES; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE METRICS; OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAM; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; REFERENCE VALUES; SOFTWARE METRIC THRESHOLDS; SOFTWARE METRICS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84355166736     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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