A catalogue of lightweight visualizations to support code smell inspection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 77-86

  Parnin, Chris ^a   Görg, Carsten ^a   Nnadi, Ogechi ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Code inspection; Code smells; Lightweight visualization; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED INSPECTIONS; CODE INSPECTION; CODE SMELLS; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; FALSE POSITIVES; INSPECTION PROCESS; LIGHTWEIGHT VISUALIZATION; OPEN SOURCE APPLICATIONS; PERFECTIVE MAINTENANCES; PRODUCT SUCCESS; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATIONS; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA VISUALIZATION; INSPECTION; ODORS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 63149148759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409720.1409733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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