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ASWEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Semantic Impact and Faults in Source Code Changes: An Empirical Study
Changes to source code have become a critical factor in fault predictions. Text or syntactic approaches have been widely used. Textual analysis focuses on changed text fragments w...
Danhua Shao, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne E. Perry
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Cloning by accident: an empirical study of source code cloning across software systems
One of the key goals of open source development is the sharing of knowledge, experience, and solutions that pertain to a software system and its problem domain. Source code clonin...
Raihan Al-Ekram, Cory Kapser, Richard C. Holt, Mic...
ICSM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Tracking Concerns in Evolving Source Code: An Empirical Study
The association between the description of a concern (e.g., a feature) and the code that implements it is valuable information that can degrade as the code of a system evolves. We...
Martin P. Robillard
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Semi-automating small-scale source code reuse via structural correspondence
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...
Rylan Cottrell, Robert J. Walker, Jörg Denzin...
CCS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Secure open source collaboration: an empirical study of linus' law
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams