Using association rules to study the co-evolution of production & test code

Proceedings of the 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-154

  Lubsen, Zeeger ^a   Zaidman, Andy ^b   Pinzger, Martin ^b  

^a Software Improvement Group   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; CO-EVOLUTION; HIGH QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TEST CODE; UNIT TESTS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MINING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

TESTING;

EID: 70349906969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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