Visualizing protected variations in evolving software designs

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 231-249

  Rufiange, Sébastien ^a   Fuhrman, Christopher P ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information hiding; Software design; Software evolution; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DESIGN LEVELS; INFORMATION HIDING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE HISTORY; SOFTWARE STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; VISUAL PATTERN;

HARDWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84891625536     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.10.044     Document Type: Article

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