The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing software ecosystems

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 264-275

  Lungu, Mircea ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a   Gîrba, Tudor ^b   Robbes, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Reverse engineering; Software ecosystems; Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LESSONS LEARNED; OPEN-SOURCE; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOSYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; REENGINEERING; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77349091094     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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