Risky files: An approach to focus quality improvement effort

2013 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 691-694

  Mockus, Audris ^a   Hackbarth, Randy ^a   Palframan, John ^a  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect prevention; Defect tracking; Risky file analysis; Software quality assurance (SQA); Version control

Indexed keywords

DEFECT PREVENTION; DEFECT TRACKING; RISKY FILE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE; VERSION CONTROL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883698483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2491411.2494572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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