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SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Change Impact Graphs: Determining the Impact of Prior Code Changes
The source code of a software system is in constant change. The impact of these changes spreads out across the software system and may lead to the sudden manifestation of failures...
Daniel M. Germán, Gregorio Robles, Ahmed E....
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting the Correspondence between Micro Patterns and Class Names
This paper argues that semantic information encoded in natural language identifiers is a largely neglected resource for program analysis. First we show that words in Java class n...
Jeremy Singer, Chris C. Kirkham
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study of Function Overloading in C++
The usefulness and usability of programming tools (for example, languages, libraries, and frameworks) may greatly impact programmer productivity and software quality. Ideally, the...
Cheng Wang, Daqing Hou
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Type Highlighting: A Client-Driven Visual Approach for Class Hierarchies Reengineering
Polymorphism and class hierarchies are key to increasing the extensibility of an object-oriented program but also raise challenges for program comprehension. Despite many advances...
Petru Florin Mihancea
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Rejuvenate Pointcut: A Tool for Pointcut Expression Recovery in Evolving Aspect-Oriented Software
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) strives to localize the scattered and tangled implementations of crosscutting concerns (CCCs) by allowing developers to declare that certain acti...
Raffi Khatchadourian, Awais Rashid
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automated Detection of Code Vulnerabilities Based on Program Analysis and Model Checking
Ensuring the correctness and reliability of software systems is one of the main problems in software development. Model checking, a static analysis method, is preponderant in impr...
Lei Wang, Qiang Zhang, PengChao Zhao
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
From Indentation Shapes to Code Structures
In a previous study, we showed that indentation was regular across multiple languages and the variance in the level of indentation of a block of revised code is correlated with me...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Precise Analysis of Java Programs Using JOANA
The JOANA project (Java Object-sensitive ANAlysis) is a program analysis infrastructure for the Java language. It contains a wide range of analysis techniques such as dependence g...
Dennis Giffhorn, Christian Hammer
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast and Precise Points-to Analysis
—Many software engineering applications require points-to analysis. Client applications range from optimizing compilers to program development and testing environments to reverse...
Jonas Lundberg, Tobias Gutzmann, Welf Löwe