A tool for visual understanding of source code dependencies

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 254-259

  Pinzger, Martin ^a   Gräfenhain, Katja ^a   Knab, Patrick ^a   Gall, Harald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; JAVA SOURCE CODES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOURCE CODING; STATIC DEPENDENCIES; WORST CASE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 71149090023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2008.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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