Non-essential changes in version histories

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 351-360

  Kawrykow, David ^a   Robillard, Martin P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

differencing algorithms; mining software repositories; software change analysis

Indexed keywords

CHANGE HISTORY; CODE CHANGES; DIFFERENCING ALGORITHM; LOCAL VARIABLES; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE ARCHIVE; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE CHANGE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEXTUAL DIFFERENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79959911408     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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