Data mining source code for locating software bugs: A case study in telecommunication industry

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 9986-9990

  Turhan, Burak ^a   Kocak, Gozde ^a   Bener, Ayse ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Case study; Defect prediction; Software bugs; Software testing

Indexed keywords

BAYES MODELS; CALL GRAPHS; CASE STUDY; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; DEFECT PREDICTION; FAULT-PRONE; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LOCAL DATUM; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PROJECT MANAGERS; SOFTWARE BUGS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NASA; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 64049099247     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.028     Document Type: Article

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