Applying webmining techniques to execution traces to support the program comprehension process

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 134-142

  Zaidman, Andy ^a   Calders, Toon ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^a   Paredaens, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Program comprehension; Reverse engineering; Webmining

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; WEBMINING;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA MINING; HEURISTIC METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 26844506710     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2005.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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