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MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...
Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl
MANSCI
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can Be Worth More and Less Than $20
The study of risky decision-making has long used monetary gambles to study choice, but many everyday decisions do not involve the prospect of winning or losing money. Monetary gam...
A. Peter McGraw, Eldar Shafir, Alexander Todorov
TSE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Effective Software Merging in the Presence of Object-Oriented Refactorings
Current text based Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems have trouble with refactorings. Refactorings result in global changes which lead to merge conflicts. A refactorin...
Danny Dig, Kashif Manzoor, Ralph E. Johnson, Tien ...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How we refactor, and how we know it
Much of what we know about how programmers refactor in the wild is based on studies that examine just a few software projects. Researchers have rarely taken the time to replicate ...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin, Andrew P. Bl...
CGO
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Generation of High-Performance Trace Compressors
Program execution traces are frequently used in industry and academia. Yet, most trace-compression algorithms have to be re-implemented every time the trace format is changed, whi...
Martin Burtscher, Nana B. Sam