Predicting source code changes by mining change history

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 574-586

  Ying, Annie T T ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^b   Ng, Raymond ^b   Chu Carroll, Mark C ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; MODIFICATION;

ASSOCIATION RULES; MINING CHANGE; SOURCE CODE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 4644274050     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.52     Document Type: Article

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