A comparative evaluation of techniques for syntactic level source code analysis

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 282-289

  Cox, Anthony ^a   Clarke, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Data mining; Data structures; Information analysis; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; Testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYNTACTICS; TESTING;

ABSTRACT SYNTAX; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; LEXICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROGRAM MAINTENANCES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0242387736     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2000.896710     Document Type: Article

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