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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A case study of open source software development: the Apache server
According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial developmen...
Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, James D. Herbsleb
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...
MSR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting defect densities in source code files with decision tree learners
With the advent of open source software repositories the data available for defect prediction in source files increased tremendously. Although traditional statistics turned out t...
Patrick Knab, Martin Pinzger, Abraham Bernstein
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou