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MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
An empirical analysis of the FixCache algorithm
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 ...
Caitlin Sadowski, Chris Lewis 0002, Zhongpeng Lin,...
MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling the evolution of topics in source code histories
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...
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Do...
MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Security versus performance bugs: a case study on Firefox
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...
Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Do time of day and developer experience affect commit bugginess
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...
Jon Eyolfson, Lin Tan, Patrick Lam
MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A simpler model of software readability
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...
Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Premkumar T. Devanbu