An expert system for determining candidate software classes for refactoring

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 10000-10003

  Kosker, Yasemin ^a   Turhan, Burak ^a   Bener, Ayse ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Naive Bayes; Refactor prediction; Refactoring; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

CODE COMPLEXITY; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; GSM OPERATORS; IS MAINTENANCES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MANUAL INSPECTIONS; NAIVE BAYES; PROGRAM EVOLUTIONS; REFACTOR PREDICTION; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE CHANGES; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE QUALITIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR CORRECTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 64049101721     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.12.066     Document Type: Article

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