Static techniques for concept location in object-oriented code

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 33-42

  Marcus, Andrian ^a   Rajlich, Václav ^a   Buchta, Joseph ^a   Petrenko, Maksym ^a   Sergeyev, Andrey ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCEDURAL CODE; OBJECT-ORIENTED CODE; STATIC PROGRAM;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 27744469636     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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