CVSSearch: Searching through source code using CVS comments

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 364-375

  Chen, Annie ^a   Chou, Eric ^a   Wong, Joshua ^a   Yao, Andrew Y ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Zhang, Shao ^a   Michail, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CVSSEARCH; SOURCE CODE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956615329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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