A case study of feature location in unstructured legacy fortran code

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 68-76

  Wilde, Norman ^a   Page, Henry ^c   Rajlich, Vaclay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY GRAPH SEARCH METHOD; SOFTWARE RECONNAISSANCE TECHNIQUE; UNSTRUCTURED LEGACY CODE;

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; GRAPH THEORY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0035784208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2001.914970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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