Characterizing the evolution of class hierarchies

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2-11

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Historical measurements; Polymetric views; Reverse engineering; Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL MEASUREMENTS; POLYMETRIC VIEWS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

HISTORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 26844487443     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2005.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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