Predicting defects with program dependencies

2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 435-438

  Zimmermann, Thomas ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DESIGN PHASE; ERROR PRONES; PREDICTION MODEL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ELEMENTS; SUPPORT DESIGN; WINDOWS SERVERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 72449210981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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