An automated approach for abstracting execution logs to execution events

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 249-267

  Jiang, Zhen Ming ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Hamann, Gilbert ^b   Flora, Parminder ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Dynamic analysis; Execution logs

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATION;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CASE STUDIES; CLONE DETECTION; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; EXECUTION LOGS; HIGH-PRECISION; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; LOG FILES; MANUAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOURCE CODING;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 49749129669     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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