Tools for making impossible changes - experiences with a tool for transforming large Smalltalk programs

IEE Proceedings: Software

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 49-56

  Roberts, D ^a   Bryant, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

^b Refactory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; PATTERN MATCHING; SEARCH ENGINES; TABLE LOOKUP; WEB BROWSERS;

DATABASE MAPPINGS; PROGRAM STRUCTURE; PROGRAM TEXT; SMALLTALK LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2942739282     PISSN: 14625970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-sen:20040078     Document Type: Article

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