History slicing: Assisting code-evolution tasks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Servant, Francisco ^a   Jones, James A ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

mining software repositories; program comprehension; software evolution; software visualization

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CODE MODIFICATIONS; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; FINE GRANULARITY; LEVELS OF AUTOMATION; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SOFTWARE-MAINTENANCE TASKS; SOURCE CODES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84871289477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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