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ISRN Software Engineering
Volume 2013, Article ID 276105, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/276105
Research Article

Extension of Object-Oriented Metrics Suite for Software Maintenance

John Michura, Miriam A. M. Capretz, and Shuying Wang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5B9

Received 2 December 2012; Accepted 22 January 2013

Academic Editors: Y. Malaiya, A. Rausch, and C. Rolland

Copyright © 2013 John Michura et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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