API-evolution support with diff-catchup

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 818-836

  Xing, Zhenchang ^a   Stroulia, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

D.2.10.g Object oriented design methods; D.2.2. eProgrammer workbench; D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques; D.2.3.a Object oriented programming; Object oriented programming; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE REFACTORING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 36348955574     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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