Source code retrieval for bug localization using latent Dirichlet allocation

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 155-164

  Lukins, Stacy K ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^b   Etzkorn, Letha H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDIES; DIRICHLET; IR MODELS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; SOURCE CODES; STATIC TECHNIQUES;

LSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 57749182418     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2008.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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