A novel software visualisation model to support software comprehension

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 70-79

  Pacione, Michael J ^a   Roper, Marc ^a   Wood, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PARADIGM; SMALL-SCALE QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18144363616     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2004.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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