Software bugs and evolution: A visual approach to uncover their relationship

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 229-238

  D'Ambros, Marco ^a   Lanza, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTENANCE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REENGINEERING;

EUROPEAN; EVOLUTION (CO); LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE BUGS; VERSIONING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 46149099840     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2006.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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