We analyze the version history of 7 software systems to predict the most fault prone entities and files. The basic assumption is that faults do not occur in isolation, but rather ...
Sunghun Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, E. James Whitehead...
The goal of the Parfait project is to find bugs in C source code in a scalable and precise way. To this end, Parfait was designed as a framework with layers of sound program anal...
Cristina Cifuentes, Nathan Keynes, Lian Li, Bernha...
Code ownership transfer or succession is a crucial ingredient in open source code reuse and in offshoring projects. Measuring succession can help understand factors that affect ...
Concept location is a critical activity during software evolution as it produces the location where a change is to start in response to a modification request, such as, a bug repo...
Gregory Gay, Sonia Haiduc, Andrian Marcus, Tim Men...
The paper proposes a new measure for the cohesion of classes in Object-Oriented software systems. It is based on the analysis of latent topics embedded in comments and identifiers...
Yixun Liu, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rudolf Ferenc, Tibor ...