Evolution spectrographs: Visualizing punctuated change in software evolution

International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE)

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 57-66

  Wu, Jingwei ^a   Spitzer, Claus W ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Holt, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COLOR; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OPEN SYSTEMS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

COLOR-CODED VISUALIZATION; LINUX; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 11244323863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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