Visualizing multiple evolution metrics

Proceedings SoftVis '05 - ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 67-75

  Pinzger, Martin ^a   Gall, Harald ^a   Fischer, Michael ^b   Lanza, Michele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution metrics; Kiviat; Software evolution analysis; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

EVOLUTION METRICS; KIVIAT DIAGRAMS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 30944437265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056018.1056027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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