Visualization of fine-grained code change history

Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 119-126

  Yoon, YoungSeok ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a   Koo, Sebon ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

integrated development environments; program comprehension; selective undo; software visualization

Indexed keywords

CODE FRAGMENTS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SELECTIVE UNDO; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; TIMELINE VISUALIZATIONS; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM;

INFORMATION FILTERING; VISUAL LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

FORTH (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84891083159     PISSN: 19436092     EISSN: 19436106     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2013.6645254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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