Leveraged quality assessment using information retrieval techniques

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 149-158

  Lawrie, Dawn J ^a   Feild, Henry ^a   Binkley, David ^a  

^a Loyola College   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language processing; Software assessment; Software quality

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEVERAGED QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA COMPRESSION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845410640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2006.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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