Mining software evolution to predict refactoring

Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 354-363

  Ratzinger, Jacek ^a   Sigmund, Thomas ^a   Vorburger, Peter ^b   Gall, Harald ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINING; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DEVELOPMENT HISTORY; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGH-PRECISION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MINING SOFTWARE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS; OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS; PREDICTION MODELING; REFACTORING; RULE LEARNERS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; VERSIONING SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 47949102923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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