Analyzing the actual execution of a large software-intensive system for determining dependencies

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-58

  Callo Arias, Trosky B ^a   Avgeriou, Paris ^a   America, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b EMBEDDED SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS APPROACHES; ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS; MRI SCANNERS; PROCESS ACTIVITIES; SOFTWARE SUBSYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM EXECUTIONS; TOP DOWNS; TWO SOURCES; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

SCANNING;

EID: 57749176664     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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