On the benefit of automated static analysis for small and medium-sized software enterprises

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 94 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-38

  Gleirscher, Mario ^a   Golubitskiy, Dmitriy ^a   Irlbeck, Maximilian ^a   Wagner, Stefan ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

architecture conformance analysis; bug pattern detection; code clone detection; small and medium sized software enterprises; software quality; static analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLONING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INDUSTRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATIC ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS RESULTS; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BUG FIXES; CODE CLONE DETECTION; PATTERN DETECTION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED SOFTWARE ENTERPRISES; SOFTWARE ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84855917031     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27213-4_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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