Scenario-driven dynamic analysis for comprehending large software systems

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 71-80

  Salah, Maher ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a   Antoniol, Giuliano ^b   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; STATIC ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSERS;

CLASS INTERACTION; EUROPEAN; EXECUTION TRACES; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; MODULE INTERACTION; MOZILLA; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; USE CASES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 46149098471     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2006.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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