Ecological inference in empirical software engineering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 362-371

  Posnett, Daryl ^a   Filkov, Vladimir ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION LEVEL; DEFECT PREDICTION; ECOLOGICAL INFERENCES; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EVOLVABILITY; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROCESS DATA; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; WORK ASSIGNMENTS;

DEFECTS; ECOLOGY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MAINTAINABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84855445994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2011.6100074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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