Source code indexing for automated tracing

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-9

  Mahmoud, Anas ^a   Niu, Nan ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

indexing; information retrieval; source code analysis; traceability

Indexed keywords

FEATURE DIAGRAMS; INDEXING PROCESS; IR MODELS; KEY COMPONENT; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODES; TRACEABILITY; TRACEABILITY LINKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 79959852682     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1987856.1987859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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