Tracing object-oriented code into functional requirements

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 79-86

  Antoniol, G ^a   Canfora, G ^a   Casazza, G ^b   De Lucia, A ^a   Merlo, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Computer errors; Documentation; Java; Libraries; Natural languages; Object oriented modeling; Programming profession; Software systems; Writing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LIBRARIES; MODELING LANGUAGES; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; TECHNICAL WRITING;

COGNITION; COMPUTER ERRORS; JAVA; NATURAL LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84951106428     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2000.852482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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