Studying the evolution of software systems using change clusters

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 46-55

  Kothari, Jay ^a   Denton, Trip ^a   Shokoufandeh, Ali ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE CLUSTERS; POSTGRESQL SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CONTROL REPOSITORIES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845460255     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2006.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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