Plugging-in Visualization: Experiences Integrating a Visualization Tool with Eclipse

Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 47-56

  Lintern, Rob ^a   Michaud, Jeff ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a   Wu, Xiaomin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Configuration management and version control; Integration; Software development environment; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0141998633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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