Recovering Software Architecture from the Names of Source Files

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-221

  Anquetil, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Lethbridge, Timothy C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concept extraction; Design recovery; Legacy systems; Name analysis; Program understanding; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141692867     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199905/06)11:3<201::aid-smr192>3.0.co;2-1     Document Type: Article

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