An empirical study of overriding in open source java

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 102, Issue , 2010, Pages 3-12

  Tempero, Ewan ^a   Counsell, Steve ^b   Noble, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Inheritance; Object oriented design; Overriding

Indexed keywords

CORPUS ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INHERITANCE; KEY FEATURE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OPEN SOURCES; OPEN-SOURCE; OVERRIDING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84868710964     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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