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2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Replaying development history to assess the effectiveness of change propagation tools
As developers modify software entities such as functions or variables to introduce new features, enhance old ones, or fix bugs, they must ensure that other entities in the software...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Who can help me with this source code change?
An approach to recommend a ranked list of developers to assist in performing software changes to a particular file is presented. The ranking is based on change expertise, experien...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Maen Hammad, Jonathan I. Maletic
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Modular Verification of Software Components in C
We present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. Our approach is compositional, naturally enabling us to decompos...
Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Alex Groce, Somesh ...