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KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Extraction of bug localization benchmarks from history
Researchers have proposed a number of tools for automatic bug localization. Given a program and a description of the failure, such tools pinpoint a set of statements that are most...
Valentin Dallmeier, Thomas Zimmermann
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Improving quality together
One recent change in software development is developers starting to take responsibility for the quality of their work by writing and executing automated tests. As with any new act...
David G. Jones, Gordon R. Cameron
ISESE
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Using observational pilot studies to test and improve lab packages
Controlled experiments are a key approach to evaluate and evolve our understanding of software engineering technologies. However, defining and running a controlled experiment is a...
Manoel G. Mendonça, Daniela Cruzes, Josemei...
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging
Earlier research on gender effects with software features intended to help problem-solvers in end-user debugging environments has shown that females are less likely to use unfamil...
Laura Beckwith, Cory Kissinger, Margaret M. Burnet...
CODES
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Enabling unrestricted automated synthesis of portable hardware accelerators for virtual machines
The performance of virtual machines (e.g., Java Virtual Machines—JVMs) can be significantly improved when critical code sections (e.g., Java bytecode methods) are migrated from...
Miljan Vuletic, Christophe Dubach, Laura Pozzi, Pa...