On the use of software visualization to analyze software evolution: An interactive differential approach

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 102 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 241-255

  Novais, Renato Lima ^a,b   De F Carneiro, Glauco ^a   Simões Jr , Paulo R M ^a   Mendonça, Manoel Gomes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b Federal Institute of Bahia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

CODE SMELL; COMPLEX DATA; DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH; HOT SPOT; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MULTI-VIEWS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOURCE CODES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861670401     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29958-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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