Automated support for classifying software failure reports

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 465-475

  Podgurski, Andy ^a   Leon, David ^a   Francis, Patrick ^a   Masri, Wes ^a   Minch, Melinda ^a   Sun, Jiayang ^b   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; VISUALIZATION;

MULTIVARIATE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE FAILURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0037587321     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icse.2003.1201224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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