Ranking refactoring suggestions based on historical volatility

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-34

  Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Code smell; Forecasting models; Historical volatility; Refactoring; Software history; Software repositories

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; FORECASTING MODELS; HISTORICAL VOLATILITY; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE HISTORY; SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES;

DESIGN; FORECASTING; MAINTAINABILITY; REENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 79955161150     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2011.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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