Maintaining traceability links during object-oriented software evolution

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 331-355

  Antoniol, G ^a   Canfora, G ^a   Casazza, G ^b   De Lucia, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Object orientation; Releases compliance check; Traceability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

RELEASE COMPLIANCE CHECK; TRACEABILITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035836569     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.374     Document Type: Article

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