Visualizing feature evolution of large-scale software based on problem and modification report data

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 385-403

  Fischer, Michael ^a   Gall, Harald ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Problem reports; Release history; Software evolution; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS); PROBLEM REPORTS; RELEASE HISTORY; SOFTWARE EVOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 10644221352     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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