Using dataflow information for concern identification in object-oriented software systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 193-202

  Trifu, Mircea ^a  

^a FZI RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concern identification; Dataflow analysis; Feature extraction; Program understanding

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCAPSULATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

CONCERN IDENTIFICATION; CROSS-CUTTING; DATA-FLOW INFORMATION; DATAFLOW ANALYSIS; DE FACTO STANDARDS; EUROPEAN; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAINTENANCE COSTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED CODING; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE UNDERSTANDABILITY; SOFTWARE UNDERSTANDING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 50249088892     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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