A case study on the application of UML in legacy development

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 124-133

  Anda, Bente ^a   Hansen, Kai ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Embedded software; Legacy software; Model driven development; UML

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; LEGACY SOFTWARE; MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247378238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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