Evaluating the usefulness of software visualization in supporting software comprehension activities

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 276-278

  Carneiro, Glauco De F ^a   Magnavita, Rodrigo ^a   Spinola, Eduardo ^a   Spinola, Fabio ^a   Mendonça, Manoel ^a  

^a Universidade Salvador   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Software comprehension; Visualization

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENTS; FULL SCALE; PILOT STUDIES; PLUG-INS; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATIONS; SOURCE CODES; VISUAL STRUCTURES;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 62949096045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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