Incorporating version histories in Information Retrieval based bug localization

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 50-59

  Sisman, Bunyamin ^a   Kak, Avinash C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bug Localization; Document Priors; Information Retrieval; Software Maintenance

Indexed keywords

BASE MODELS; BUG LOCALIZATION; DOCUMENT PRIORS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TEMPORAL DECAY; TIME DECAY; VERSIONING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DEFECTS; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84865127921     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2012.6224299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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