Documenting software systems with views V: Towards visual documentation of design patterns as an aid to program understanding

SIGDOC'07: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 103-111

  Tøese, Tim ^a   Tilley, Scott ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*

Author keywords

Design patterns; Documentation; Program understanding

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PATTERNS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA VISUALIZATION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 42149140695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297144.1297167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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