Java generics adoption: How new features are introduced, championed, or ignored

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-12

  Parnin, Chris ^a   Bird, Christian ^b   Murphy Hill, Emerson ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

generics; java; languages; post mortem analysis

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; GENERIC PROGRAMMING; GENERICS; JAVA; JAVA DEVELOPERS; JAVA GENERICS; JAVA LANGUAGE; JAVA PROGRAM; LINES OF CODE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; POSTMORTEM ANALYSIS; TYPE CAST;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPEN SYSTEMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79959226102     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985441.1985446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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