Visual querying and analysis of large software repositories

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-340

  Voinea, Lucian ^a   Telea, Alexandru ^b  

^a SolidSource BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution visualization; Repository mining; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DOMAIN EXPERTS; END USERS; EVOLUTION VISUALIZATION; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; PROJECT DOCUMENTATION; REPOSITORY MINING; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; MINING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 67650507461     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9068-6     Document Type: Article

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