Improving usability of software refactoring tools

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 307-316

  Mealy, Erica ^a   Carrington, David ^a   Strooper, Paul ^a   Wyeth, Peta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE REFACTORING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM QUALITY; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548129523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2007.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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