CodeCrawler-lessons learned in building a software visualization tool

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 409-418

  Lanza, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROBLEMS; INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE; REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION PROCESS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION TOOL; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION TOOL - CODECRAWLER; VISUALIZATION ENGINE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DESIGN; REENGINEERING; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

TOOLS;

EID: 1542328524     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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