RIPPLES: Tool for change in legacy software

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 230-239

  Chen, Kunrong ^a   Rajlich, Václav ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; LEGACY SYSTEMS; WEB BROWSERS;

ABSTRACT SYSTEM DEPENDENCE GRAPH; LEGACY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE CHANGE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE RIPPLES;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035784235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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