Change distilling: Tree differencing for fine-grained source code change extraction

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 725-743

  Fluri, Beat ^a   Würsch, Michael ^a   Pinzger, Martin ^a   Gall, Harald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Software evolution analysis; Software repositories; Source code change extraction; Tree differencing algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

CHANGE DISTILLING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOURCE CODE CHANGE EXTRACTION; TREE DIFFERENCING ALGORITHMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 35348968376     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70731     Document Type: Article

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