Yesterday's weather: Guiding early reverse engineering efforts by summarizing the evolution of changes

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 40-49

  Gîrba, Tudor ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Object oriented programming; Program understanding; Reverse engineering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVOLUTIONARY MEASUREMENTS; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18044363272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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