Bug localization using latent Dirichlet allocation

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 972-990

  Lukins, Stacy K ^a   Kraft, Nicholas A ^b   Etzkorn, Letha H ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Bug localization; Information retrieval; Latent Dirichlet allocation; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; LOCALIZATION INFORMATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MODELS; TOPIC MODEL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SCALABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953684460     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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