IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Rapid system understanding is required in the planning, feasibility assessment and cost estimating phases of a system renovation project. In this paper, we apply a number of analy...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper describes a collection of algorithms that we developed and implemented to facilitate the automatic recovery of the modular structure of a software system from its sourc...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper presents an overview of the DIME environment (DIrect Manipulation Environment) being developed by the author. The paper presents the DIME vision, its catalogue of evolu...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
An approach to recover object oriented design patterns from design and code is presented. The pattern recovery process is based on a multi-stage filtering strategy to avoid combin...