Mining large software compilations over time: Another perspective of software evolution

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-9

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a   Michlmayr, Martin ^b   Amor, Juan Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

large software collections; mining software repositories; software evolution; software integrators

Indexed keywords

FILE SIZES; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LINES OF CODE; LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE COMPILATION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE INTEGRATORS;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MACROS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77953990481     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1137983.1137986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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