Comprehension of object-oriented software cohesion: The empirical quagmire

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 33-42

  Counsell, S ^a   Mendes, E ^b   Swift, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer science; Data structures; Educational institutions; Fault detection; Hamming distance; Information systems; Skeleton; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software tools

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; FAULT DETECTION; HAMMING DISTANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; OBJECT ORIENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; SKELETON; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84948670609     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2002.1021308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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