Feature location using probabilistic ranking of methods based on execution scenarios and information retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 420-431

  Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^b   Marcus, Andrian ^a   Antoniol, Giuliano ^c   Rajlich, Václav ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concept location; Dynamic and static analyses; Feature identification; Information retrieval; Latent Semantic Indexing; Open source software; Program understanding; Scenario based probabilistic ranking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONCEPT LOCATION; FEATURE LOCATION; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; PROBABILISTIC RANKING; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34248674007     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.1016     Document Type: Article

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