Automatic query performance assessment during the retrieval of software artifacts

2012 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 90-99

  Haiduc, Sonia ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Marcus, Andrian ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concept location; Query performance; Text retrieval

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LOCATIONS; IMPACT ANALYSIS; QUERY PERFORMANCE; REGULAR-EXPRESSION MATCHING; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOURCE CODES; TEXT RETRIEVAL; TEXT SEARCH; TRACEABILITY LINKS; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PATTERN MATCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866910335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2351676.2351690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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