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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Tracking pointers with path and context sensitivity for bug detection in C programs
This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S. Lam
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SIGSOFT
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Fair and balanced?: bias in bug-fix datasets
Software engineering researchers have long been interested in where and why bugs occur in code, and in predicting where they might turn up next. Historical bug-occurence data has ...
Christian Bird, Adrian Bachmann, Eirik Aune, John ...
92
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CASCON
2008
100views Education» more  CASCON 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Is it a bug or an enhancement?: a text-based approach to classify change requests
Bug tracking systems are valuable assets for managing maintenance activities. They are widely used in open-source projects as well as in the software industry. They collect many d...
Giuliano Antoniol, Kamel Ayari, Massimiliano Di Pe...
93
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JDM
2008
114views more  JDM 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Bug Fixing Practices within Free/Libre Open Source Software Development Teams
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...
Kevin Crowston, Barbara Scozzi
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Instrumentation and sampling strategies for cooperative concurrency bug isolation
Fixing concurrency bugs (or crugs) is critical in modern software systems. Static analyses to find crugs such as data races and atomicity violations scale poorly, while dynamic a...
Guoliang Jin, Aditya V. Thakur, Ben Liblit, Shan L...