Encapsulating targeted component abstractions using software Reflexion Modelling

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-134

  Buckley, Jim ^a   LeGear, Andrew P ^a   Exton, Chris ^a   Cadogan, Ross ^b   Johnston, Trevor ^b   Looby, Bill ^b   Koschke, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architecture recovery; Component recovery; Re engineering; Reflexion; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

ARCHITECTURE RECOVERY; COMPONENT RECOVERY; REFLEXION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 42649107161     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.364     Document Type: Article

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