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

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Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering table of contents

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Pages: 345 - 354

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-074-0

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Lionel C. Briand	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jürgen Wüst	Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Stefan V. Ikonomovski	Centre de Recherche, Informatique de Montreal, Sherbrooke West, Suite 100, Montréal, Qc, Canada H3A 1B9
Hakim Lounis	Centre de Recherche, Informatique de Montreal, Sherbrooke West, Suite 100, Montréal, Qc, Canada H3A 1B9

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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