Large-scale, AST-based API-usage analysis of open-source Java projects

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1317-1324

  Lämmel, Ralf ^a   Pek, Ekaterina ^a   Starek, Jürgen ^a  

^a University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF AUTOMATION; EMPIRICAL DATA; FACT EXTRACTION; MAPPING RULES; OPEN-SOURCE;

METADATA;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79959294094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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