Identification of Software Instabilities

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 134-144

  Bevan, Jennifer ^a   Whitehead, E James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Data structures; Data visualization; History; Information retrieval; Project management; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software systems; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA VISUALIZATION; HISTORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAINTENANCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; MAINTENANCE PRACTICES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84944571205     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2003.1287244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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