MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—Design patterns are codified solutions to common object-oriented design (OOD) problems in software development. One of the proclaimed benefits of the use of design patterns is...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—The severity of a reported bug is a critical factor in deciding how soon it needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, while clear guidelines exist on how to assign the severity of a bu...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Abstract—In a young field, such as Mining Software Repositories (MSR), there is always a call for benchmarks so that researchers can compare their results against others. Thus i...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—To help developers in using frameworks, good documentation is crucial. However, it is a challenge to create high quality documentation especially of hotspots in white-box framew...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Abstract—Development mailing lists play a central role in facilitating communication in open source projects. Since these lists frequently host design and project discussions, kn...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—Social network methods are frequently used to analyze networks derived from Open Source Project communication and collaboration data. Such studies typically discover patterns in...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Abstract—Reliably predicting software defects is one of software engineering’s holy grails. Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of bug prediction approaches var...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...