An exploratory study of the evolution of communicated information about the execution of large software systems

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 335-344

  Shang, Weiyi ^a   Jiang, Zhen Ming ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Godfrey, Michael W ^b   Nasser, Mohamed ^c   Flora, Parminder ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communicated information; Execution log analysis; Reverse engineering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED INSTRUMENTATION; COMMUNICATED INFORMATION; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; DYNAMIC NATURE; EXECUTION LOGS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; HIGH RATE; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LOG ANALYSIS; OPEN SOURCES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POINTS OF INTEREST; ROBUST ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TRACE ABILITY; WORKLOAD MODELING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TRACE ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 83455162440     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2011.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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