Visual exploration of function call graphs for feature location in complex software systems

Proceedings - SOFTVIS 06: ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 95-104

  Bohnet, Johannes ^a   Döllner, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Feature analysis; Feature location; Program comprehension; Reverse engineering; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; FEATURE ANALYSIS; FEATURE LOCATION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSIONS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOURCE CODES; STATIC ARCHITECTURE; TIME CONSUMING TASKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 36448946902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148493.1148508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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