A System for Graph-Based Visualization of the Evolution of Software

Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-86

  Collberg, Christian ^a   Kobourov, Stephen ^a   Nagra, Jasvir ^b   Pitts, Jacob ^a   Wampler, Kevin ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

LEGACY PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0141894907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/774841.774844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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