Predicting change propagation in software systems

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 284-293

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Holt, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (AOP); CHANGE PROPAGATION; OBJECT ORIENTED (OO) PARADIGMS; SOURCE CODES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER VIRUSES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18044389905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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