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The relationship between slices and module cohesion

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International Conference on Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 198 - 204

Year of Publication: 1989

ISBN:0-8186-1941-4

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Linda M. Ott	Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Jeffrey J. Thuss	Autoaol Technology, 12500 Washington St., Denver, CO

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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