Hipikat: A project memory for software development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 446-465

  Čubranić, Davor ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^b   Singer, Janice ^c   Booth, Kellogg S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Project memory; Recommender system; Software artifacts; Software development teams; User studies

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA MINING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METADATA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

PROJECT MEMORY; RECOMMENDER SYSTEM; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; USER STUDIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 24344477568     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.71     Document Type: Article

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