Source versus object code extraction for recovering software architecture

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 10-19

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Jiang, Zhen Ming ^a   Holt, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OBJECT CODE EXTRACTION; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 33846264533     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2005.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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