Feature location via information retrieval based filtering of a single scenario execution trace

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 234-243

  Liu, Dapeng ^a   Marcus, Andrian ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a   Rajlich, Vaclav ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

concept location; dynamic and static analyses; feature identification; information retrieval; program understanding

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LOCATION; EXECUTION TRACE; FEATURE IDENTIFICATION; FEATURE LOCATION; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOURCE CODES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPEN SYSTEMS; STATIC ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77953988862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321631.1321667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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