Tree-based methods for classifying software failures

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 451-462

  Francis, Patrick ^a   Leon, David ^a   Minch, Melinda ^a   Podgurski, Andy ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE; CLUSTERING; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; DEFECTS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 16244376195     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2004.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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