Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words.
During my research starting stage, I’m trying to get myself better understanding of state-of-the-art in software engineering area. The diagram below is first one of this series. It contains the basic research topics in software maintenance/evolution area of software engineering. To better understand on each small topic on this diagram, I will also draw hierarchy diagram on each small topic to discover the related work, research approaches, etc.
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