GENOA - A customizable, front-end-retargetable source code analysis framework

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-212

  Devanbu, Premkumar T ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Code inspection; D.2.3 Software Engineering : Coding tools and techniques; D.2.6 Software Engineering : Programming environments; Languages; Metrics; Reverse engineering; Source analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000354558     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/304399.304402     Document Type: Article

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