Software process representation and analysis for framework instantiation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 145-159

  Oliveira, Toacy C ^a   Alencar, Paulo S C ^b   Filho, Ivan M ^a   De Lucena, Carlos J P ^a   Cowan, Donald D ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design analysis; Frameworks; Instantiation; Lightweight analysis; Software design; Software process; Specification

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; METADATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SEMANTICS;

DESIGN ANALYSIS; FRAMEWORK INSTANTIATION; LIGHTWEIGHT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PROCESS REPRESENTATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1942468143     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.1271169     Document Type: Article

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