Frontiers of reverse engineering: A conceptual model

Proceedings of the 2008 Frontiers of Software Maintenance, FoSM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 38-47

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CONCEPTUAL MODELS; ENGINEERING CONCEPTS; REVERSE ENGINEERING PROCESSES; SOFTWARE REVERSE ENGINEERINGS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 57849128966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOSM.2008.4659247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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