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WCRE
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A Structured Demonstration of Five Program Comprehension Tools: Lessons Learnt
The purpose of this panel is to report on a structured demonstration for comparing program comprehension tools. Five program comprehension tool designers applied their tools to a ...
Susan Elliott Sim, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Andrea...
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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy, Kris De Volder
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ICSM
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
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COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
How Well Do Test Case Prioritization Techniques Support Statistical Fault Localization
—In continuous integration, a tight integration of test case prioritization techniques and fault-localization techniques may both expose failures faster and locate faults more ef...
Bo Jiang, Zhenyu Zhang, T. H. Tse, Tsong Yueh Chen
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Differential testing: a new approach to change detection
Regression testing, as it's commonly practiced, is unsound due to inconsistent test repair and test addition. This paper presents a new technique, differential testing, that ...
Robert B. Evans, Alberto Savoia