Software visualization in software maintenance, reverse engineering, and re-engineering: A research survey

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 87-109

  Koschke, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Re engineering; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; AUTOMATIC TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0038325654     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.270     Document Type: Article

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