The class blueprint: Visually supporting the understanding of classes

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-90

  Ducasse, Stéphane ^a   Lanza, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Object oriented programming; Reverse engineering; Smalltalk; Software visualization; Visual patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

CLASS BLUEPRINT; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; VISUAL PATTERNS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 17644428012     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.14     Document Type: Article

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