Exploring software evolution using spectrographs

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 80-89

  Wu, Jingwei ^a   Holt, Richard C ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Software evolution; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; GRAPH THEORY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPECTROGRAPHS; VISUALIZATION;

EVOLUTION SPECTROGRAPHS (ESG); EVOLUTION-RELATED QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; VISUAL REPRESENTATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18144367758     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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