DECODE: A co-operative program understanding environment

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-33

  Chin, David N ^a   Quilici, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Co operative environment; Design extraction; Object orientated; Program understanding; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN EXTRACTION; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE DECODE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0029732192     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199601)8:1<3::aid-smr122>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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