Citation
Hall, John M.,
The Maintainability of Object-Oriented Software, 2003, Unpublished manuscript.
Abstract
Object-oriented processes are often touted as solutions to software development problems. The popularity of object-oriented method has generated many favorable reviews, particularly in the popular media. Object-oriented development promises to reduce the maintenance effort. However, these promises are not based on reliable experimentation. The software engineering literature does include some experimental results. These studies do not show that object-oriented techniques reduce maintenance costs. Most of these experiments show that object-oriented approaches actually increase maintenance difficulties.
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@unpublished{Hall2003:ObjectOriented,
author = "John M. Hall",
title = "The Maintainability of Object-Oriented Software",
notes = "Software Engineering",
year = "2003",
url = "http://www.johnmhall.net/research/unpublished/ObjectOriented.html" }
