The Strangest Thing About Software

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January 2007 (vol. 40 no. 1)

pp. 54-60

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	Tim Menzies, David Owen, Julian Richardson, "The Strangest Thing About Software," Computer, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 54-60, January, 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MC.2007.37, author = {Tim Menzies and David Owen and Julian Richardson}, title = {The Strangest Thing About Software}, journal ={Computer}, volume = {40}, number = {1}, issn = {0018-9162}, year = {2007}, pages = {54-60}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.37}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - Computer TI - The Strangest Thing About Software IS - 1 SN - 0018-9162 SP54 EP60 EPD - 54-60 A1 - Tim Menzies, A1 - David Owen, A1 - Julian Richardson, PY - 2007 KW - Software engineering KW - Artificial intelligence KW - LURCH KW - TAR3 KW - Data mining VL - 40 JA - Computer ER -

Tim Menzies, West Virginia University

David Owen, West Virginia University

Julian Richardson, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.37

Although there are times when random search is dangerous and should be avoided, software analysis should start with random methods because they are so cheap, moving to the more complex methods only when random methods fail.

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Software engineering, Artificial intelligence, LURCH, TAR3, Data mining

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Tim Menzies, David Owen, Julian Richardson, "The Strangest Thing About Software," Computer, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 54-60, Jan. 2007, doi:10.1109/MC.2007.37

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