A principled taxonomy of software visualization

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 211-266

  Price, Blaine A ^a,b   Baecker, Ronald M ^b   Small, Ian S ^b,c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c APPLE INC   (United States)

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EID: 43949174505     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1993.1015     Document Type: Article

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