Tracking performance across software revisions

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, PPPJ 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 162-171

  Mostafa, Nagy ^a   Krintz, Chandra ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Calling context tree; Performance aware revision control; Profiling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; JAVA PROGRAM; OPEN SOURCES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROGRAM SEMANTICS; REVISION CONTROL; REVISION CONTROL SYSTEMS; SITE INFORMATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE REVISIONS; SOURCE CODES; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TREE COMPARISON;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 70449678726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1596655.1596682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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