Duplicate bug reports considered harmful... Really?

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 337-345

  Bettenburg, Nicolas ^a   Premraj, Rahul ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b   Kim, Sunghun ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATIONS; BUG REPORTS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS;

MAINTENANCE; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 57849117068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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