UMLDiff: An algorithm for object-oriented design differencing

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 54-65

  Xing, Zhenchang ^a   Stroulia, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design differencing; Design mentoring; Design understanding; Structural evolution

Indexed keywords

CLASS MODELS; CODE VERSIONS; DESIGN EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; JAVA SOFTWARE; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; REAL-WORLD; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DESIGN; MARKUP LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952332592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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