A topic-based approach for narrowing the search space of buggy files from a bug report

2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 263-272

  Nguyen, Anh Tuan ^a   Nguyen, Tung Thanh ^a   Al Kofahi, Jafar ^a   Nguyen, Hung Viet ^a   Nguyen, Tien N ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect Localization; Topic Modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BUG REPORTS; DEFECT LOCALIZATIONS; SEARCH SPACES; SOURCE CODES; SOURCE FILES; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; TEXTUAL CONTENT; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; TOPIC MODEL; TOPIC-BASED APPROACH;

AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); SOFTWARE DESIGN;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84855424540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2011.6100062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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