A comparative study on the re-documentation of existing software: Code annotations vs. drawing editors

2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 277-286

  Torchiano, Marco ^a   Ricca, Filippo ^b   Tonella, Paolo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Code Annotations; Reverse Engineering; UML; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

CODE ANNOTATIONS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INTERNAL CODE STRUCTURE; PROCESSING TOOLS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749044365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2005.1541836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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