Exploring the evolution of software quality with animated visualization

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-20

  Langelier, Guillaume ^a   Sahraoui, Houari ^a   Poulin, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

CASE STUDIES; COGNITIVE GAPS; HUMAN EXPERTS; QUALITY ASPECTS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS; REDUCING COSTS; SEMI AUTOMATICS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTIONS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCES; SOFTWARE QUALITIES; SOFTWARE VERSIONS; VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 56349101187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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