Software clustering using dynamic analysis and static dependencies

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-36

  Patel, Chiragkumar ^a   Hamou Lhadj, Abdelwahab ^b   Rilling, Juergen ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Architecture recovery; Program comprehension; Software clustering; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE RECOVERY; BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; LARGE SYSTEM; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE CLUSTERING; SOFTWARE FEATURES; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC DEPENDENCIES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; TWO-PHASE CLUSTERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECOMPOSITION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STATIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 67649841916     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2009.62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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