An approach to feature location in distributed systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Edwards, Dennis ^a   Simmons, Sharon ^a   Wilde, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Feature location; Software reconnaissance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FEATURE LOCATION; SOFTWARE RECONNAISSANCE; TIME INTERVALS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 31044456271     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.12.018     Document Type: Article

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