A comparative study of three program exploration tools

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-112

  De Alwis, Brian ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a   Robillard, Martin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM-SIZED CODE; SOFTWARE EXPLORATION TOOLS; TASK LOAD INDEX (TLX);

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34948877619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2007.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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