Industrial tools for the feature location problem: An exploratory study

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 457-474

  Simmons, Sharon ^a   Edwards, Dennis ^a   Wilde, Norman ^a   Homan, Josh ^a   Groble, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature location; Program comprehension; Software maintenance; Tool adaptation

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FEATURE LOCATION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; TOOL ADAPTATION; TOOL INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33845399621     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.338     Document Type: Article

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