An Analysis of Software Quality and Maintainability Metrics with an Application to a Longitudinal Study of the Linux Kernel.
Coupling between software modules has been shown to be deleterious to both software quality and maintainability. Common coupling (two or more modules sharing a global variable, or GV) is a particularly strong (and therefore undesirable) form of coupling. We examined 83 production (stable) versions o...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07082008-001537/ |