Program comprehension for domain-specific languages

Computer Science and Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Pereira, Maria João Varanda ^a   Mernik, Marjan ^b   da Cruz, Daniela ^c   Henriques, Pedro Rangel ^c  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

DSLs; Problem comprehension; Program understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349690333     PISSN: 18200214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/CSIS0802001P     Document Type: Article

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