Impact of the visitor pattern on program comprehension and maintenance

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-78

  Jeanmart, Sébastien ^a   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^b   Sahraoui, Houari ^c   Habra, Naji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL REPRESENTATIONS; CLASS DIAGRAMS; DESIGN PATTERNS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; VISITOR PATTERNS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EYE MOVEMENTS; MAINTAINABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 72449129016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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