On the correlation between size and metric validity

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2585-2611

  Gil, Yossi ^a   Lalouche, Gal ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Object oriented programming; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CODE METRICS; CODE SIZE; EFFECT OF SIZES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EXTERNAL FEATURES; NON-PARAMETRIC; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85020540868     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-017-9513-5     Document Type: Article

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