Visualizing impacts of database schema changes - A controlled experiment

2001 IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 358-365

  Karahasanović, Amela ^a   Sjøberg, Dag I K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

SCHEMA EVOLUTION MANAGEMENT TOOL (SEMT);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035791151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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