Mining version histories to guide software changes

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue , 2004, Pages 563-572

  Zimmermann, Thomas ^a   Weißgerber, Peter ^a   Diehl, Stephan ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HTML; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WEBSITES;

DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA SOURCES; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMING LIBRARIES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 4544295325     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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