A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
In situations in which developers are not familiar with a system or its documentation is inadequate, the system’s source code becomes the only reliable source of information. Unf...
Vladimir Jakobac, Alexander Egyed, Nenad Medvidovi...
An objective of unit testing is to achieve high structural coverage of the code under test. Achieving high structural coverage of object-oriented code requires desirable method-ca...
Suresh Thummalapenta, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, J...
Diagnosing software failures in the field is notoriously difficult, in part due to the fundamental complexity of trouble-shooting any complex software system, but further exacer...
Ding Yuan, Jing Zheng, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou,...
This paper presents a methodology for knowledge acquisition from source code. We use data mining to support semiautomated software maintenance and comprehension and provide practi...