Visual tools for software architecture understanding: A stakeholder perspective

IEEE Software

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 46-53

  Telea, Alexandru ^a   Voinea, Lucian ^b   Sassenburg, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SolidSource BV   (Netherlands)

^c SE CURE ^*  (China)

Author keywords

software engineering; software tools; visualization

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TOOL; INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE; LEAN DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL ADOPTION; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE TOOL; STATE OF AFFAIRS; VISUAL TOOLS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77958177219     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2010.115     Document Type: Article

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