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WCRE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Experimental Paradigm in Reverse Engineering: Role, Challenges, and Limitations
In many areas of software engineering, empirical studies are playing an increasingly important role. This stems from the fact that software technologies are often based on heurist...
Lionel C. Briand
WCRE
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of Executable Concept Slice Size
An Executable Concept Slice extracts from a program an executable subprogram that captures the semantics of a specified high-level concept from the program. Executable concept sl...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
GECCO
2005
Springer
146views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
An empirical study of the robustness of two module clustering fitness functions
Two of the attractions of search-based software engineering (SBSE) derive from the nature of the fitness functions used to guide the search. These have proved to be highly robust...
Mark Harman, Stephen Swift, Kiarash Mahdavi
WCRE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months 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...