Normalizing source code vocabulary

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-12

  Lawrie, Dawn ^a   Binkley, Dave ^a   Morrell, Christopher ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Program comprehension; Source code analysis tools

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE; DESIGN DOCUMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FEATURE LOCATION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; TEST PLAN;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LOCATION; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78650666501     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2010.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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