Group:
software maintenance
Topic:
browsing with a user interface
Topic:
cross reference and hierarchical links in hypertext
Topic:
information retrieval with an index
Topic:
information retrieval by following links
Topic:
information retrieval by topic
Topic:
programming environment
Topic:
reverse engineering of software
Topic:
software change management
Topic:
thesaurus and information retrieval
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Summary
Cross reference links terms to other uses of the same term. For example, if a change is needed in one location, a similar change may be needed in other locations.
Cross reference is particularly useful for refactoring software and reverse engineering of software (cbb 10/07)
Subtopic: cross reference 
| Quote: a full-text index of everything is indispensable; fast access to information, uncovers lost information [»manbU10_1993]
| | Quote: the CADES indices for documentation and source files are very important [»pratGD9_1976]
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Subtopic: implementation
| Quote: used the UNIX shell to write a cross reference program in a day [»bianMH_1976]
| | Quote: a MicroTool program is a database of organized, cross-referenced data [»elshJL1_1991]
| | Quote: use a two-level lexicon to reduce memory requirements; half of the terms only appear once in the 2-gigabyte TREC collection [»moffA8_1995]
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Subtopic: statistics
| Quote: the number of distinct words in a text is nearly linear in the size of the text; e.g., misspellings [»moffA3_1994]
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Subtopic: cross-reference not useful
Quote: program proofs, cross-references, attribute lists, and dumps were rarely used
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Related Topics
Group: software maintenance (14 topics, 368 quotes)
Topic: browsing with a user interface (14 items)
Topic: cross reference and hierarchical links in hypertext (9 items)
Topic: information retrieval with an index (32 items)
Topic: information retrieval by following links (23 items)
Topic: information retrieval by topic (16 items)
Topic: programming environment (46 items)
Topic: reverse engineering of software (6 items)
Topic: software change management (48 items)
Topic: thesaurus and information retrieval
(29 items)
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