On the impact of software evolution on software clustering

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 970-1004

  Beck, Fabian ^a   Diehl, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Code dependencies; Empirical study; Software clustering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CODE DEPENDENCIES; DEPENDENCY INFORMATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOFTWARE CLUSTERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84881119017     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-012-9225-9     Document Type: Article

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