Design recovery for distributed systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 461-472

  Holtzblatt, Lester J ^a   Piazza, Richard L ^b   Reubenstein, Howard B ^c   Roberts, Susan N ^b   Harris, David R ^c  

^a Reasoning Inc   (United States)

^b Spyglass Inc   (United States)

^c MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Design recovery; Language independence; Legacy systems; Program understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004631835     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.605763     Document Type: Article

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