Visually localizing design problems with disharmony maps

SOFTVIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 155-164

  Wettel, Richard ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Software design anomalies; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

3-D VISUALIZATIONS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN QUALITIES; JAVA SYSTEMS; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LARGE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCES; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOURCE CODES; STATIC STRUCTURES; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 63149136951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409720.1409745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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