Understanding execution traces using massive sequence and circular bundle views

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-58

  Cornelissen, Bas ^a   Holten, Danny ^b   Zaidman, Andy ^a   Moonen, Leon ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^b   Van Deursen, Arie ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE COMPREHENSION; FEATURE LOCATION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TRACE EXPLORATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SCALABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34948841527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2007.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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