DRC: A dependence relationships based cohesion measure for classes

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 215-223

  Zhou, Yuming ^a   Wen, Lijie ^a   Wang, Jianmin ^a   Chen, Yujian ^a   Lu, Hongmin ^b   Xu, Baowen ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION;

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; DEPENDENCE GRAPHS; DEPENDENCE RELATIONSHIPS; POTENTIAL DEPENDENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84944683206     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2003.1254374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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