Modeling the evolution of topics in source code histories

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 173-182

  Thomas, Stephen W ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Blostein, Dorothea ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

lda; software evolution; topic models

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA DUPLICATION; ERROR PRONES; EVOLUTION MODELS; LDA; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCE CODES; TOPIC MODEL;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

MODELS;

EID: 79959252292     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985441.1985467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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