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MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Toward Reusing Code Changes
Abstract—Existing techniques have succeeded to help developers implement new code. However, they are insufficient to help to change existing code. Previous studies have proposed...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Investigating Code Review Practices in Defective Files: An Empirical Study of the Qt System
—Software code review is a well-established software quality practice. Recently, Modern Code Review (MCR) has been widely adopted in both open source and proprietary projects. To...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Going Green: An Exploratory Analysis of Energy-Related Questions
— The popularity of smartphones — small computers that run on battery power — has exploded in the last decade. Unsurprisingly, power consumption is an overarching concern for...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Do Bugs Foreshadow Vulnerabilities? A Study of the Chromium Project
Abstract—As developers face ever-increasing pressure to engineer secure software, researchers are building an understanding of security-sensitive bugs (i.e. vulnerabilities). Res...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Sameness: An Experiment in Code Search
—To date, most dedicated code search engines use ranking algorithms that focus only on the relevancy between the query and the results. In practice, this means that a developer m...
Lee Martie, André van der Hoek
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
The Debsources Dataset: Two Decades of Debian Source Code Metadata
—We present the Debsources Dataset: distribution metadata and source code metrics spanning two decades of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) history, seen through the lens of t...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Toward Deep Learning Software Repositories
Abstract—Deep learning subsumes algorithms that automatically learn compositional representations. The ability of these models to generalize well has ushered in tremendous advanc...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Characteristics of Useful Code Reviews: An Empirical Study at Microsoft
Abstract—Over the past decade, both open source and commercial software projects have adopted contemporary peer code review practices as a quality control mechanism. Prior resear...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Mining Successful Answers in Stack Overflow
— Recent research has shown that drivers of success in online question answering encompass presentation quality as well as temporal and social aspects. Yet, we argue that also th...
MSR
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Using Developer-Interaction Trails to Triage Change Requests
— The paper presents an approach, namely iHDev, to recommend developers who are most likely to implement incoming change requests. The basic premise of iHDev is that the develope...