Towards a framework for software navigation techniques

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-104

  Sutherland, Andrew ^a   Schneider, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

perception; software navigation

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES; PERCEPTION; RELATIVE INFORMATION; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TECHNIQUES USED;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NAVIGATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953562074     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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