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...
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...
The usefulness and usability of programming tools (for example, languages, libraries, and frameworks) may greatly impact programmer productivity and software quality. Ideally, the...
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...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) strives to localize the scattered and tangled implementations of crosscutting concerns (CCCs) by allowing developers to declare that certain acti...
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...
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...
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...
—Many software engineering applications require points-to analysis. Client applications range from optimizing compilers to program development and testing environments to reverse...