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When do changes induce fixes?
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As a software system evolves, programmers make changes that sometimes cause problems. We analyze CVS archives for fix-inducing changes ---changes that lead to problems, indicated by fixes. We show how to automatically locate fix-inducing changes by linking a version archive (such as CVS) to a bug database (such as BUGZILLA). In a first investigation of the MOZILLA and ECLIPSE history, it turns out that fix-inducing changes show distinct patterns with respect to their size and the day of week they were applied.
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- Śliwerski, J., Zimmermann, T., & Zeller, A.
- Venue
- ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Published
- 2005-05-17
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1-5
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- 0163-5948 (ISSN-L)
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- W2157353183
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- 55.13
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- en
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