Using bug report similarity to enhance bug localisation

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 125-134

  Davies, Steven ^a   Roper, Marc ^a   Wood, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bug localisation; feature location; mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; FEATURE LOCATION; LOCALISATION; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; SOURCE CODES; SOURCE LOCATION; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84872360359     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2012.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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