From system comprehension to program comprehension

Proceedings-IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 427-432

  Tjortjis, Christos ^a   Gold, Nicolas ^a   Layzell, Paul ^a   Bennett, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA MINING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SYSTEM COMPREHENSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0036391916     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045039     Document Type: Article

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