SUN Xiao-bing, LI Yun, LI Bi-xin, et al. A Survey of Using Formal Concept Analysis for Software Maintenance[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(7): 1399-1406.
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SUN Xiao-bing, LI Yun, LI Bi-xin, et al. A Survey of Using Formal Concept Analysis for Software Maintenance[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(7): 1399-1406. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2015.07.023.
A Survey of Using Formal Concept Analysis for Software Maintenance
Formal concept analysis(FCA)is an approach to identify conceptual structures among data sets.It is a very useful clustering technique providing a formal framework to explore the binary relationship among the entities and recognize groups of entities that exhibit common properties.This paper tries to survey the studies of the FCA applications in software maintenance field from 2000 to 2013.These research results are categorized according to a simple framework of software maintenance activities
such as software comprehension
change impact analysis
refactoring
debugging and testing.Finally
the potential research directions in the related field are discussed.