Mining version archives for co-changed lines

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Title	Mining version archives for co-changed lines
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2006
Authors	Zimmermann, T, Kim, S, Zeller, A, Whitehead, Jr., JE
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Pagination	72–75
Publisher	ACM
Place Published	New York, NY, USA
ISBN Number	1-59593-397-2
Keywords	change, change analysis, change management, graph, lines of code, source code
Abstract	Files, classes, or methods have frequently been investigated in recent research on co-change. In this paper, we present a first study at the level of lines. To identify line changes across several versions, we define the annotation graph which captures how lines evolve over time. The annotation graph provides more fine-grained software evolution information such as life cycles of each line and related changes: "Whenever a developer changed line 1 of version.txt she also changed line 25 of Library.java."
URL	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138001
DOI	10.1145/1137983.1138001
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