Evaluating the relation between coding standard violations and faults within and across software versions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-50

  Boogerd, Cathal ^a   Moonen, Leon ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING STANDARDS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FAULT LOCATION; PILOT STUDIES; RULE VIOLATION; SOFTWARE VERSIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

STANDARDS;

EID: 70349935045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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