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...
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...
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...
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...
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...