Toward an understanding of bug fix patterns

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 286-315

  Pan, Kai ^a   Kim, Sunghun ^b   Whitehead Jr , E James ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Bug fix changes; Categorization of software faults; Causes of software bugs; Experimentation; Measurement; Software bugs; Software error; Software fault; Software fault taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BUG FIX CHANGES; CATEGORIZATION OF SOFTWARE FAULTS; CAUSES OF SOFTWARE BUGS; EXPERIMENTATION; SOFTWARE BUGS; SOFTWARE ERROR; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOFTWARE FAULT TAXONOMY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TAXONOMIES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 67650480233     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9077-5     Document Type: Article

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