Recovering traceability links between code and documentation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 970-983

  Antoniol, Giuliano ^a   Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Casazza, Gerardo ^b   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Merlo, Ettore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Object orientation; Program comprehension; Redocumentation; Traceability

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036821537     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2002.1041053     Document Type: Article

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