A software transformation framework for quality-driven object-oriented re-engineering

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 596-605

  Tahvildari, Ladan ^a   Kontogiannis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGACY SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE TRANSFORMATIONS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036442389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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