Experimental assessment of software metrics using automated refactoring

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-58

  Cinnéide, Mel Ó ^a   Tratt, Laurence ^b   Harman, Mark ^c   Counsell, Steve ^d   Moghadam, Iman Hemati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Refactoring; Search based software engineering; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COHESION METRICS; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; JAVA SYSTEM; LINES OF CODE; REFACTORINGS; SEARCH-BASED; SEARCH-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE METRICS;

ADHESION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84867531939     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2372251.2372260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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