Detecting bad smells in source code using change history information

2013 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 268-278

  Palomba, Fabio ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^d William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Change History Information; Code Smells

Indexed keywords

CHANGE HISTORY; CODE SMELL; FAULT-PRONENESS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; VERSIONING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ODORS;

EID: 84893525320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2013.6693086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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