Mining the lexicon used by programmers during sofware evolution

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 14-23

  Antoniol, Giuliano ^a   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^b   Merlo, Ettore ^a   Tonella, Paolo ^c  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE;

EVOLUTION (CO); EVOLUTION PROCESSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LARGE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM STRUCTURES; STABILITY METRICS; TOOL SUPPORTS;

SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 47349109262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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