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TSE
1998
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An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
—This paper describes the results of an investigation into a set of metrics for object-oriented design, called the MOOD metrics. The merits of each of the six MOOD metrics is dis...
Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, Reuben V. Nithi
TSE
1998
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Managerial Use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis
—With the increasing use of object-oriented methods in new software development there is a growing need to both document and improve current practice in object-oriented design an...
Shyam R. Chidamber, David P. Darcy, Chris F. Kemer...
ACE
2004
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13 years 9 months ago
Using a Maze Case Study to Teach Object-Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
In order to teach object-oriented design and programming in introductory computer science it is imperative to teach objects from the very beginning of the course. The use of inter...
Chris Nevison, Barbara Wells
ICECCS
1995
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A combined functional and object-oriented approach to software design
Large and complex software systems contain a variety of entities objects and a complex control system transformationfunction. The pure object-orienteddesign and structured des...
Haifeng Qian, Eduardo B. Fernández, Jie Wu
ECOOP
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Meta Patterns - A Means For Capturing the Essentials of Reusable Object-Oriented Design
There is an undeniable demand to capture already proven and matured object-oriented design so that building reusable object-oriented software does not always have to start from scr...
Wolfgang Pree
APAQS
2000
IEEE
14 years 16 min ago
A Formal Mechanism for Assessing Polymorphism in Object-Oriented Systems
Although quality is not easy to evaluate since it is a complex concept compound by different aspects, several properties that make a good object-oriented design have been recogniz...
Claudia Pons, Maximo Prieto, Luis Olsina
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
14 years 18 hour ago
Designing Components Versus Objects: A Transformational Approach
A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines componen...
David H. Lorenz, John M. Vlissides
PPPJ
2003
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
A stochastic approach to automated design improvement
The object-oriented approach to software development facilitates and encourages programming practices that increase reusability, correctness and maintainability in code. This is a...
Mark Kent O'Keeffe, Mel Ó Cinnéide
APN
2004
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
On the Use of Coloured Petri Nets for Object-Oriented Design
Abstract. Behaviour specification in object-oriented design clearly benefits from the use of a formal, or semi-formal, visual specification language. This is attested by the ado...
João Paulo Barros, Luís Gomes
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Buffer pools and file processing projects for an undergraduate data structures course
This paper presents a family of programming projects appropriate to a sophomore-level data structures course, centered around the concept of a buffer pool serving as the access i...
Clifford A. Shaffer