An interactive ambient visualization for code smells

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-14

  Murphy Hill, Emerson ^a   Black, Andrew P ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Code smells; Refactoring; Software; Usability

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; DESIGN PROBLEMS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE; USABILITY;

VISUALIZATION;

ODORS;

EID: 78650855103     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1879211.1879214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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