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ESEM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of capture-recapture models for estimating the abundance of naturally-occurring defects
Project managers can use capture-recapture models to manage the inspection process by estimating the number of defects present in an artifact and determining whether a reinspectio...
Gursimran Singh Walia, Jeffrey C. Carver
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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The missing links: bugs and bug-fix commits
Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An analysis of the variability in forty preprocessor-based software product lines
Over 30 years ago, the preprocessor cpp was developed to extend the programming language C by lightweight metaprogramming capabilities. Despite its error-proneness and low ion lev...
Jörg Liebig, Sven Apel, Christian Lengauer, C...