Adoption of reverse engineering tools: A cognitive perspective and methodology

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 245-255

  Zayour, I ^a   Lethbridge, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costs; Information technology; Knowledge engineering; Reverse engineering; Samarium; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software systems; Software tools; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MAINTENANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SAMARIUM;

COGNITIVE ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE OVERLOAD; COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES; MAINTENANCE WORK; REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE SOLUTION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COST ENGINEERING;

EID: 84950986700     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2001.921735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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