Fifth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering: 14-16 March Lisbon, Portugal : Proceedings

The proceedings volume of the March 2001 conference contains 19 full papers and eight short papers that discuss software maintenance tools and reengineering services, including work on reverse engineering, slicing, metrics, program manipulation, migration and transformation, effort estimation, and maintenance modeling and simulation. Some of the topics are evaluating the effect of inheritance on the modifiability of object-oriented business domain models, metrics based refactoring, capturing dynamic program behavior with UML collaboration diagrams, a case study of feature location in unstructured legacy Fortran code, a dynamic slicing method for maintenance of large C programs, and modeling web maintenance centers through queue models. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)