Visualizing object-oriented software in virtual reality

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 26-35

  Maletic, J I ^a   Leigh, J ^b   Marcus, A ^a   Dunlap, G ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer science; Data visualization; Displays; Laboratories; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; Unified modeling language; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA VISUALIZATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; LABORATORIES; MODELING LANGUAGES; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

CLASS INFORMATION; METRIC INFORMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84886536243     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2001.921711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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