Supporting software maintenance by mining software updata records

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 22-31

  Shirabad, Jelber Sayyad ^a   Lethbridge, Timothy C ^a   Matwin, Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data mining; Knowledge based systems; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE RELEVANCE RELATIONS; PROGRAM MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956613278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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