The effect of lexicon bad smells on concept location in source code

Proceedings - 11th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 125-134

  Abebe, Surafel Lemma ^a   Haiduc, Sonia ^b   Tonella, Paolo ^a   Marcus, Andrian ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

code smells; concept location; lexicon bad smells; program comprehension; software lexicon; text retrieval

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; CONCEPT LOCATIONS; LEXICON BAD SMELLS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ODORS; SEARCH ENGINES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 82055183827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2011.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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