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Visualizing interactions in program executions

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Dean F. Jerding,

John T. Stasko,

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ICSE '97: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 360 - 370

https://doi.org/10.1145/253228.253356

Published: 01 May 1997 Publication History

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