Hypertext support for the information needs of software maintainers

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-215

  Koskinen, Jussi ^a   Salminen, Airi ^a   Paakki, Jukka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Program dependencies; Program slicing; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

HYPERSOFT SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEPENDENCIES; PROGRAM SLICING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 3142622991     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.292     Document Type: Article

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