Recommending change clusters to support software investigation: An empirical study

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 143-164

  Robillard, Martin P ^a   Dagenais, Barthélémy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mining software repositories; Recommendation systems; Software clustering

Indexed keywords

CHANGE TASKS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MINIMAL COST; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-MAINTENANCE TASKS; SOURCE CODES; TIME SPAN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUALITY CONTROL; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77950149743     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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