Supporting reengineering scenarios with FETCH: An experience report

Electronic Communications of the EASST

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Du Bois, Bart ^a   Van Rompaey, Bart ^a   Meijfroidt, Karel ^b   Suijs, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial experience; Quality assurance; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052962421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18632122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14279/tuj.eceasst.8.116.115     Document Type: Article

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