Using information retrieval to support design of incremental change of software

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 563-566

  Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a   Marcus, Andrian ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

change propagation; concept location; coupling and cohesion measurement; dynamic and static analyses; feature identification; impact analysis; information retrieval; program understanding

Indexed keywords

CHANGE PROPAGATION; CONCEPT LOCATION; FEATURE IDENTIFICATION; IMPACT ANALYSIS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING;

ADHESION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77954016152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321631.1321743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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