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MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving evolvability through refactoring
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...
Jacek Ratzinger, Michael Fischer, Harald Gall
MSR
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Mining large software compilations over time: another perspective of software evolution
With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-B...
SPAA
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Nonblocking k-compare-single-swap
The current literature offers two extremes of nonblocking software synchronization support for concurrent data structure design: intricate designs of specific structures based o...
Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, Nir Shavit
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Software prefetching for mark-sweep garbage collection: hardware analysis and software redesign
Tracing garbage collectors traverse references from live program variables, transitively tracing out the closure of live objects. Memory accesses incurred during tracing are essen...
Chen-Yong Cher, Antony L. Hosking, T. N. Vijaykuma...
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Identifying bug signatures using discriminative graph mining
Bug localization has attracted a lot of attention recently. Most existing methods focus on pinpointing a single statement or function call which is very likely to contain bugs. Al...
Hong Cheng, David Lo, Yang Zhou, Xiaoyin Wang, Xif...