Software evolution analysis is concerned with analysis of artifacts produced during a software systems life-cycle. Execution traces produced from instrumented code reflect a syst...
Michael Fischer, Johann Oberleitner, Harald Gall, ...
Refactoring is one means of improving the structure of existing software. Locations for the application of refactoring are often based on subjective perceptions such as ”bad sme...
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
Faults that occur in production systems are the most important faults to fix, but most production systems lack the debugging facilities present in development environments. TraceB...
Andrew Ayers, Richard Schooler, Chris Metcalf, Ana...
A number of effective error detection tools have been built in recent years to check if a program conforms to certain design rules. An important class of design rules deals with s...
Michael C. Martin, V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S....