Summarizing the content of large traces to facilitate the understanding of the behaviour of a software system

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 181-190

  Hamou Lhadj, Abdelwahab ^a   Lethbridge, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design recovery; Dynamic analysis; Program comprehension; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RECOVERY; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; TRACE SUMMARIZATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845432883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2006.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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