An exploratory study on assessing feature location techniques

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 218-222

  Revelle, Meghan ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FEATURE LOCATION; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349977381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090045     Document Type: Article

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