Replaying development history to assess the effectiveness of change propagation tools

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 335-367

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Holt, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change propagation; Historical co change; Mining software repositories; Source control systems; Static dependency

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER DEBUGGING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; WEB BROWSERS;

CHANGE PROPAGATION; HISTORICAL CO-CHANGE; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATIC DEPENDENCY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746062865     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-006-9006-4     Document Type: Article

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