Feature location is the activity of identifying an initial location in the source code that
implements functionality in a software system. Many feature location techniques have been …

The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

We apply data mining to version histories in order to guide programmers along related
changes:" Programmers who changed these functions also changed...." Given a set of …

A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Source control repositories, bug repositories, archived communications, deployment logs,
and code repositories are examples of software repositories that are commonly available for …

Sociological and technical difficulties, such as a lack of informal encounters, can make it
difficult for new members of noncollocated software development teams to learn from their …

Feature location techniques aim at locating software artifacts that implement a specific
program functionality, aka a feature. These techniques support developers during various …

Software systems contain entities, such as functions and variables, which are related to each
other. As a software system evolves to accommodate new features and repair bugs …

To facilitate software maintenance and evolution, a helpful step is to locate features
concerned in a particular maintenance task. In the literature, both dynamic and interactive …

We describe a method to use the source code change history of a software project to drive
and help to refine the search for bugs. Based on the data retrieved from the source code …