In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
Authorship attribution is used to determine the creator of works among many candidates, playing a vital role in software forensics, authorship disputes and academic integrity inve...
Steven Burrows, Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd, Andrew ...
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...
We study how constraint-based static analysis can be applied to the automated and systematic debugging of program errors. Strongly moding and constraint-based mode analysis are tur...
Software developers are constantly required to modify and adapt application features in response to changing requirements. The problem is that just by reading the source code, it ...