Predicting faults from cached history

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 489-498

  Kim, Sunghun ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b   Whitehead Jr , E James ^c   Zeller, Andreas ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION;

OPEN SOURCES; SOURCE CODES; VALIDATION RESOURCES;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 34548793480     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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