Polymetric views - A lightweight visual approach to reverse engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 782-795

  Lanza, Michele ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Object oriented programming; Reverse engineering; Software metrics; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LIGHTWEIGHT SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; POLYMETRIC VIEW; SOFTWARE METRICS;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0142103236     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1232284     Document Type: Article

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