Using data fusion and web mining to support feature location in software

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 14-23

  Revelle, Meghan ^a   Dit, Bogdan ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dynamic analysis; Feature location; Information retrieval; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DATA SOURCE; EXECUTION INFORMATIONS; FEATURE LOCATION; FUSION MODEL; INTEGRATING MULTIPLE SOURCES; SOURCE CODES; WEB MINING; WEB MINING ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA FUSION; DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77956153631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2010.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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