A 3D metaphor for software production visualization

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 314-319

  Panas, Thomas ^a   Berrigan, Rebecca ^b   Grundy, John ^c  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Peace Software   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Program understanding; Program visualization; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; PROGRAM VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE COSTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84943423337     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2003.1217996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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