Towards a process for developing maintenance tools in academia

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-246

  Kienle, Holger M ^a   Müller, Hausi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ACADEMIC RESEARCHES; CURRENT STATES; DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; DO-MAINS; EFFECTIVE TOOLS; LITTLE RESEARCHES; MAINTENANCE TOOLS; NEW TECHNIQUES; PROCESS REQUIREMENTS; PROJECT CONSTRAINTS; PROJECT DECISIONS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCES; SPECIFIC TOOLS; TEAM MEMBERS; TOOL BUILDINGS; WORK PRODUCTS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 57749200273     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2008.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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