The Qualitas Corpus: A curated collection of Java code for empirical studies

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 336-345

  Tempero, Ewan ^a   Anslow, Craig ^d   Dietrich, Jens ^b   Han, Ted ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Lumpe, Markus ^c   Melton, Hayden ^a   Noble, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Curated code corpus; Empirical studies; Experimental infrastructure

Indexed keywords

CURATED CODE CORPUS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE; JAVA CODES; JAVA SYSTEM; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951728242     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2010.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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