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The design navigator: charting java programs

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Epameinondas Gasparis,

Amnon H. Eden,

Jonathan Nicholson,

Rick KazmanAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE Companion '08: Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 945 - 946

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370175.1370200

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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The Design Navigator is a semi-automated design mining tool which reverse engineers LePUS3 design charts from Java^™ 1.4 programs at any level of abstraction in reasonable time. We demonstrate the Design Navigator's step-wise charting process of Java Foundation Classes, generating decreasingly abstract charts of java.awt and discovering building-blocks in its design.

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Eden AGasparis ENicholson JKazman R(2018)Round-trip engineering with the Two-Tier Programming ToolkitSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-017-9363-926:2(249-271)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2018
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Zhu HBayley I(2015)On the Composability of Design PatternsIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/TSE.2015.244534141:11(1138-1152)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2015
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The design navigator: charting java programs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
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