Toward reducing fault fix time: Understanding developer behavior for the design of automated fault detection tools

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 176-185

  Layman, Lucas ^a   Williams, Laurie ^a   St Amant, Robert ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMING THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

AUTOMATED FAULT DETECTION; CUSTOMIZABLE; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FAULT INFORMATION; FAULT NOTIFICATION; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 47949126220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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