Mining version histories to guide software changes

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 429-445

  Zimmermann, Thomas ^a   Weißgerber, Peter ^b   Diehl, Stephan ^b   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association rules; Classification; Clustering; Configuration management; Data mining; Distribution; Enhancement; Maintenance; Programming environments construction tools

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; CONFIGURATION MANAGMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 24344509258     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.72     Document Type: Article

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