Towards a taxonomy of software change

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 309-332

  Buckley, Jim ^a   Mens, Tom ^b   Zenger, Matthias ^c,f   Rashid, Awais ^d,g   Kniesel, Günter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^g IEEE

Author keywords

Characterization; CVS; eLiza; Refactoring browser; Software evolution tools

Indexed keywords

CVS; SOFTWARE CHANGE; TAXONOMY;

COMPOSITION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONCRETES; WEB BROWSERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 27644441348     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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