Visualizing co-change information with the evolution radar

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 720-735

  D'Ambros, Marco ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a   Lungu, Mircea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Logical coupling; Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COUPLINGS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 73449148350     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.17     Document Type: Article

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