Programming style changes in evolving source code

Program Comprehension, Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 12, Issue , 2004, Pages 236-240

  Mohan, Andrew ^a   Gold, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Program comprehension; Programming style; Software evolution; Software quality

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAMMING STYLE; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 10044286235     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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