SNIAFL: Towards a static noninteractive approach to feature location

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-226

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Liu, Yin ^b,c   Sun, Jiasu ^a   Yang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCG; Feature location; Information retrieval; Program comprehension; Static analysis; Traceability

Indexed keywords

BRCG; FEATURE LOCATION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; TRACEABILITY;

COMPUTATION THEORY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745348653     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 1049331X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1131421.1131424     Document Type: Article

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