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Investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs: an industrial case study

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Lionel C. Briand,

Jürgen Wüst,

Stefan V. Ikonomovski,

Hakim LounisAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '99: Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering

Pages 345 - 354

https://doi.org/10.1145/302405.302654

Published: 16 May 1999 Publication History

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