Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance

ASE'07 - 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 14-23

  Hill, Emily ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Vijay Shanker, K ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

natural language program analysis; program exploration; software maintenance; software tools

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TOOLS; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; LEXICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL PROGRAMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION USE; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77953983730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321631.1321637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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