An empirical study of build maintenance effort

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-150

  McIntosh, Shane ^a   Adams, Bram ^a   Nguyen, Thanh H D ^a   Kamei, Yasutaka ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

build systems; empirical software engineering; mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACES; BUILD SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCE CODE CHANGES; SOURCE CODES; SYSTEM SPECIFICATION; TEST CODE; TEST DEVELOPMENT; TWO-DIMENSION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 79959887906     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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