Visual comparison of software architectures

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 183-192

  Beck, Fabian ^a   Diehl, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graph visualization; Hierarchy comparison; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

GRAPH VISUALIZATION; HIERARCHY COMPARISON; SOFTWARE CLUSTERING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMPARISON; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

REVERSE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78650867912     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1879211.1879238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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