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When Does a Refactoring Induce Bugs? An Empirical Study 什么时候重构会导致bug ?实证研究

2012 IEEE 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2012.20

G. Bavota, Bernardino De Carluccio, A. D. Lucia, M. D. Penta, R. Oliveto, Orazio Strollo

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