Mining exception-handling rules as sequence association rules

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 496-506

  Thummalapenta, Suresh ^a   Xie, Tao ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE CONNECTIONS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FUNCTION CALLS; MINING EXCEPTIONS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; RECOVERY ACTIONS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MINING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 69449108102     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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