Understanding the use of inheritance with visual patterns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-88

  Denier, Simon ^a   Sahraoui, Houari ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS HIERARCHIES; LARGE PROGRAMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; VISUAL PATTERN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 72449195686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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