Software visualization tools: Survey and analysis

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 7-17

  Bassil, S ^a   Keller, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly; Collaborative software; Councils; Software design; Software engineering; Software systems; Software tools; Springs; Taxonomy; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GROUPWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TAXONOMIES; VISUALIZATION;

COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; COUNCILS; QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION TOOL; SYSTEM COMPREHENSIONS; TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84950987566     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2001.921708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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