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ISPW
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evolving Defect "Folklore": A Cross-Study Analysis of Software Defect Behavior
Abstract. Answering “macro-process” research issues – which require understanding how development processes fit or do not fit in different organizational systems and environm...
Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull
AOSD
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Back to the future: a retroactive study of aspect evolution in operating system code
The FreeBSD operating system more than doubled in size between version 2 and version 4. Many changes to primary modularity are easy to spot at a high-level. For example, new devic...
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 23 hour ago
Who are Source Code Contributors and How do they Change?
—Determining who are the copyright owners of a software system is important as they are the individuals and organizations that license the software to its users, and ultimately t...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán
RAID
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Using Formal Grammar and Genetic Operators to Evolve Malware
In this paper, we leverage the concepts of formal grammar and genetic operators to evolve malware. As a case study, we take COM infectors and design their formal grammar with produ...
Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, M. Zubair Shafiq, Mu...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 23 hour ago
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaë...