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ICST
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study on the Relation between Dependency Neighborhoods and Failures
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
ESEM
2009
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Security of open source web applications
In an empirical study of fourteen widely used open source PHP web applications, we found that the vulnerability density of the aggregate code base decreased from 8.88 vulnerabilit...
James Walden, Maureen Doyle, Grant A. Welch, Micha...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Validity concerns in software engineering research
Empirical studies that use software repository artifacts have become popular in the last decade due to the ready availability of open source project archives. In this paper, we su...
Hyrum K. Wright, Miryung Kim, Dewayne E. Perry
WCRE
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
A Study of Consistent and Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones
Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...
Jens Krinke