Impact of structural weighting on a latent Dirichlet allocation–based feature location technique

• Published in: Journal of software : evolution and process Vol. 30; no. 1
• Main Authors: Eddy, Brian P., Kraft, Nicholas A., Gray, Jeff
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Configurations; Dirichlet problem; Empirical analysis; Factorial analysis; feature location; Names; program comprehension; Qualitative analysis; static analysis; term weighting; text retrieval; Weighting

Text retrieval–based feature location techniques (FLTs) use information from the terms present in documents in classes and methods. However, relevant terms originating from certain locations (eg, method names) often comprise only a small part of the entire method lexicon. Feature location techniques...