Visualizing software architecture evolution using change-sets

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 130-139

  McNair, Andrew ^a   German, Daniel M ^a   Weber Jahnke, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; NET EFFECT; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 51149097759     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2007.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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