A visual analytics tool for software project structure and relationships among classes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5531 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 203-212

  García, Juan ^a   González Torres, Antonio ^a   Gómez Aguilar, Diego Alonso ^a   Therón, Roberto ^a   García Peñalvo, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mining Software Repositories; Software Visualization; Visual Analytics

Indexed keywords

CLASS LEVEL; CLASS RELATIONSHIP; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; PROJECT STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOURCE CODES; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 71049154998     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02115-2_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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