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ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Symbolic mining of temporal specifications
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...
Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Are fit tables really talking?: a series of experiments to understand whether fit tables are useful during evolution tasks
Test-driven software development tackles the problem of operationally defining the features to be implemented by means of test cases. This approach was recently ported to the earl...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Impact analysis of database schema changes
We propose static program analysis techniques for identifying the impact of relational database schema changes upon object-oriented applications. We use dataflow analysis to extra...
Andy Maule, Wolfgang Emmerich, David S. Rosenblum
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Use of relative code churn measures to predict system defect density
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou