PEPM
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
The performance of many dynamic language implementations suffers from high allocation rates and runtime type checks. This makes dynamic languages less applicable to purely algorit...
PEPM
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Passing multiple continuation arguments to a function in CPS form allows one to encode a wide variety of direct-style control constructs, such as conditionals, exceptions, and mul...
PEPM
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Writing deterministic programs is often difficult for problems whose optimal solutions depend on unpredictable properties of the programs’ inputs. Difficulty is also encounter...
PEPM
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Navigating through tree structures is a core operation in tree processing programs. Most notably, XML processing programs intensively use XPath, the path specification language t...
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
The FixCache algorithm, introduced in 2007, effectively identifies files or methods which are likely to contain bugs by analyzing source control repository history. However, many ...
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
A good understanding of the impact of different types of bugs on various project aspects is essential to improve software quality research and practice. For instance, we would ex...
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Modern software is often developed over many years with hundreds of thousands of commits. Commit metadata is a rich source of social characteristics, including the commit’s time...
MSR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Software readability is a property that influences how easily a given piece of code can be read and understood. Since readability can affect maintainability, quality, etc., prog...
IUI
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
This paper describes an approach to allow end users to define new procedures through tutorial instruction. Our approach allows users to specify procedures in natural language in t...