Functional paleontology: The evolution of user-visible system services

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-166

  Antón, Annie I ^a   Potts, Colin ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical methods; Measurement; Metrics; Requirements engineering; Reverse engineering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FUNCTIONAL PALEONTOLOGY;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037328554     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1178053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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