Several techniques have been developed for identifying similar code fragments in programs. These similar fragments, referred to as code clones, can be used to identify redundant c...
Software readability is a property that influences how easily a given piece of code can be read and understood. Since readability can affect maintainability, quality, etc., prog...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...
Object-oriented frameworks support design and code reuse for specific application domains. To facilitate the development of evolutionary computation (EC) programs, such as geneti...
Andres J. Ramirez, Adam C. Jensen, Betty H. C. Che...
We present Arithmetic Program Paths, a novel, efficient way to compress program control-flow traces that reduces program bit traces to less than a fifth of their original size whi...
Manos Renieris, Shashank Ramaprasad, Steven P. Rei...