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ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
A human study of patch maintainability
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...
Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer
SIGSOFT
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Report from the 2nd international workshop on replication in empirical software engineering research (RESER 2011)
The RESER workshop provides a venue in which empirical software engineering researchers can discuss the theoretical foundations and methods of replication, as well as present the ...
Jonathan L. Krein, Charles D. Knutson, Lutz Preche...
EMSOFT
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
From boolean to quantitative synthesis
Motivated by improvements in constraint-solving technology and by the increase of routinely available computational power, partial-program synthesis is emerging as an effective a...
Pavol Cerný, Thomas A. Henzinger
MSR
2011
ACM
13 years 2 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 2 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 2 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
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Feature cohesion in software product lines: an exploratory study
Software product lines gain momentum in research and industry. duct-line approaches use features as a central abstraction mechanism. Feature-oriented software development aims at ...
Sven Apel, Dirk Beyer
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Pragmatic prioritization of software quality assurance efforts
A plethora of recent work leverages historical data to help practitioners better prioritize their software quality assurance efforts. However, the adoption of this prior work in p...
Emad Shihab
ISPW
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Analyzing software process models with AVISPA
Software process models are sophisticated and large specifications aimed at organizing and managing software development. Their formal specification demands an enormous effort,...
Julio Ariel Hurtado Alegria, María Cecilia ...