Metrics for measuring the effectiveness of decompilers and obfuscators

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-258

  Naeem, Nomair A ^a   Batchelder, Michael ^a   Hendren, Laurie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA DEVELOPERS; JAVA SOURCE; LOW-LEVEL CLASS FILES; OBFUSCATORS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34948844614     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2007.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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