Enhancing Maintainability of Source Programs Through Disabbreviation

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-128

  Laitinen, Kari ^a   Taramaa, Jorma ^a   Heikkilä, Markku ^a   Rowe, Neil C ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOURCE PROGRAMS; VARIABLE DISABBREVIATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031146906     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(96)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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