A qualitative study on performance bugs

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 199-208

  Zaman, Shahed ^a   Adams, Bram ^b   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromium; Mozilla Firefox; Performance bugs; qualitative study

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; COMPETITIVE MARKETS; FIREFOX; MOZILLA; PERFORMANCE BUGS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RANDOM SAMPLE; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE;

CHROMIUM;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 84865125030     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2012.6224281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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