Identifying crosscutting concerns using historical code changes

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 305-314

  Adams, Bram ^a   Jiang, Zhen Ming ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

concern mining; empirical research; mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

C-SYSTEMS; CODE CHANGES; CODE FRAGMENTS; CROSSCUTTING CONCERN; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; LARGE SYSTEM; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; MINING TECHNIQUES; OPEN SOURCES; SMALL VARIATIONS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RESEARCH; SEED;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77954692717     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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