Before performing a modification task, a developer usually has to investigate the source code of a system to understand how to carry out the task. Discovering the code relevant to...
When developers change a program, regression tests can fail not only due to faults in the program but also due to outof-date test code that does not reflect the desired behavior ...
Software engineering researchers have long been interested in where and why bugs occur in code, and in predicting where they might turn up next. Historical bug-occurence data has ...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John ...
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
Application domain description precedes requirements engineering, and is the basis for the development of a software or information system that satisfies all expectations of its u...