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MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
THEX: Mining metapatterns from java
—Design patterns are codified solutions to common object-oriented design (OOD) problems in software development. One of the proclaimed benefits of the use of design patterns is...
Daryl Posnett, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Identifying licensing of jar archives using a code-search approach
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Gi...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Predicting the severity of a reported bug
—The severity of a reported bug is a critical factor in deciding how soon it needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, while clear guidelines exist on how to assign the severity of a bu...
Ahmed Lamkanfi, Serge Demeyer, Emanuel Giger, Bart...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Clones: What is that smell?
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining Challenge 2010: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu
Abstract—In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus i...
Abram Hindle, Israel Herraiz, Emad Shihab, Zhen Mi...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining subclassing directives to improve framework reuse
—To help developers in using frameworks, good documentation is crucial. However, it is a challenge to create high quality documentation especially of hotspots in white-box framew...
Marcel Bruch, Mira Mezini, Martin Monperrus
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Should I contribute to this discussion?
Abstract—Development mailing lists play a central role in facilitating communication in open source projects. Since these lists frequently host design and project discussions, kn...
Walid Ibrahim, Nicolas Bettenburg, Emad Shihab, Br...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Validity of network analyses in Open Source Projects
—Social network methods are frequently used to analyze networks derived from Open Source Project communication and collaboration data. Such studies typically discover patterns in...
Roozbeh Nia, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanbu,...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An extensive comparison of bug prediction approaches
Abstract—Reliably predicting software defects is one of software engineering’s holy grails. Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of bug prediction approaches var...
Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, Romain Robbes
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Do stack traces help developers fix bugs?
—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...
Adrian Schröter, Nicolas Bettenburg, Rahul Pr...