Reverse engineering Web applications: The WARE approach

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 71-101

  Di Lucca, Giuseppe Antonio ^a   Fasolino, Anna Rita ^b   Tramontana, Porfirio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Program understanding; Reverse engineering; UML diagrams; Web application

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERING; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; UML DIAGRAMS; WEB APPLICATIONS;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1442314635     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.281     Document Type: Article

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